Posted by Chris on 01/19/06 18:27

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.
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>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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>thnx,
>Chris
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Those two had valid ones as well, but I like the negative look-behind
assertion:

preg_replace('/(?<!^)([A-Z])/','_$1','JimJoeBobBriggs');

Chris

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