Posted by Richard Heyes on 01/19/06 18:19

Chris Boget wrote:
> I've been beating my head against the wall for a while trying to come up
> with the RE I need to use. I have a camel case word - let's use
> JimJoeBobBriggs. I need to come up with a RE that will fine all the
> upper case characters and insert an underscore prior to those characters
> with the exception of a possible first character. So using the
> aforementioned word, the RE would change it to Jim_Joe_Bob_Briggs.

$result = preg_replace('#(.)([A-Z])#', '\1_\2', 'JimJoeBobBriggs');

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Richard Heyes
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