shift key escape sequence
 

is there an escape sequence to be entered in a string that would perform the functionality of the shift key.
in other words, is there a sequence XX such that "XYa" = "A" or "XY4" = "$"
thanks.

Re: shift key escape sequence
 

I believe the shift keys are ordinal values 14/15 or so. It probably varies between Windows and Linux too. If you were to use them as a sequence to literally shift before a character, it might be something like printf("%ca", 15). But, as far as I know, that does not work.

Why not use a prebuilt function for capitalizing letters? What do you need to do this for anyways?

Re: shift key escape sequence
 

Have you checked Sun's Java API documentation? You can do what you want by using the Robot class to simulate input. It does come with some caveats, but it should get you started. Note that you'll need to simulate press and release events. For the virtual key codes used in Java, see the KeyEvent class.

If all you want to do is map lowercase letters to their uppercase counterparts, you can use a lookup table, switch() block, or the Java API methods to accomplish this (things like String.toUpperCase() and similar methods).