ToCamelCase
Converts a string to camel case.
- Use
Regex.Matches()
with an appropriate regular expression to break the string into words. - Use
string.Join()
andstring.ToLower()
to convert the words to lowercase and combine them addingas a separator.
- Use
CultureInfo.TextInfo.ToTitleCase()
on the result to convert it to title case,string.Replace()
with a regular expression to remove spaces afterwards. - Finally, use
IEnumerable.Select()
on the result to convert the first character to lowercase and return a string from the result.
using System.Globalization;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Linq;
public static partial class _30s
{
public static string ToCamelCase(string str)
{
Regex pattern = new Regex(@"[A-Z]{2,}(?=[A-Z][a-z]+[0-9]*|\b)|[A-Z]?[a-z]+[0-9]*|[A-Z]|[0-9]+");
return new string(
new CultureInfo("en-US", false)
.TextInfo
.ToTitleCase(
string.Join(" ", pattern.Matches(str)).ToLower()
)
.Replace(@" ", "")
.Select((x, i) => i == 0 ? char.ToLower(x) : x)
.ToArray()
);
}
}
_30s.ToCamelCase("some_database_field_name"); // "someDatabaseFieldName"
_30s.ToCamelCase("Some label that needs to be title-cased"); // "someLabelThatNeedsToBeCamelized"
_30s.ToCamelCase("some-package-name"); // "somePackageName"
_30s.ToCamelCase("some-mixed_string with spaces_underscores-and-hyphens"); // "someMixedStringWithSpacesUnderscoresAndHyphens"