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Created July 21, 2012 06:30
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Utility to functions to convert between camel case and underscore separated names
/**
* Takes a camel cased identifier name and returns an underscore separated
* name
*
* Example:
* camelToUnderscores("thisIsA1Test") == "this_is_a_1_test"
*/
def camelToUnderscores(name: String) = "[A-Z\\d]".r.replaceAllIn(name, {m =>
"_" + m.group(0).toLowerCase()
})
/*
* Takes an underscore separated identifier name and returns a camel cased one
*
* Example:
* underscoreToCamel("this_is_a_1_test") == "thisIsA1Test"
*/
def underscoreToCamel(name: String) = "_([a-z\\d])".r.replaceAllIn(name, {m =>
m.group(1).toUpperCase()
})
@Kalyan-D
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@0dilon you version stack-overflows if the camelCase already contains an underscore.

any update on this @0dilon

@umbarger
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umbarger commented Sep 21, 2021

val camelToSnake : String => String = _.foldLeft( "" ){ (acc, c) =>
    ( c.isUpper, acc.isEmpty, acc.takeRight(1) == "_" ) match {
      case (true, false, false) => acc + "_" + c.toLower
      case (true, _, _) => acc + c.toLower
      case (false, _, _) => acc + c
    }
  }

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