From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-20T01:02:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Convert "ThisIsSomeString" to "this_is_some_string"?

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, [UTF-8] Marcin Miel��y�~Dski wrote:

> Joshua Muheim wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> What's the fastest way to convert "ThisIsSomeString" to 
>> "this_is_some_string"?
>> 
>> Thanks for help,
>> Joshua
>> 
>
> p "ThisIsSomeString".scan(/[A-Z][a-z]+/).map{|w|w.downcase}.join('_')
> p "this_is_some_string".split('_').map{|w|w.capitalize}.join
>

irb(main):001:0> "FooBAR".scan(/[A-Z][a-z]+/).map{|w|w.downcase}.join('_')
=> "foo"

it's trickier than it looks.


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