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unCamelCase.js
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/** | |
* Turns someCrazyName into Some Crazy Name | |
* Decent job of acroynyms: | |
* ABCAcryonym => ABC Acryoynm | |
* xmlHTTPRequest => Xml HTTP Request | |
*/ | |
String.prototype.unCamelCase = function(){ | |
return this | |
// insert a space between lower & upper | |
.replace(/([a-z])([A-Z])/g, '$1 $2') | |
// space before last upper in a sequence followed by lower | |
.replace(/\b([A-Z]+)([A-Z])([a-z])/, '$1 $2$3') | |
// uppercase the first character | |
.replace(/^./, function(str){ return str.toUpperCase(); }) | |
} | |
// Or, one liner. | |
String.prototype.unCamelCase=function(){return this.replace(/([a-z])([A-Z])/g,'$1 $2').replace(/\b([A-Z]+)([A-Z])([a-z])/,'$1 $2$3').replace(/^./,function(s){return s.toUpperCase();})} |
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minor update to handle one digit after a v, which is common for my use case