Is there any ready function which converts camel case Strings into underscore separated string?
I want something like this:
"CamelCaseString".to_underscore
to return "camel_case_string".
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Is there any ready function which converts camel case Strings into underscore separated string?
I want something like this:
"CamelCaseString".to_underscore
to return "camel_case_string".
...
Rails' ActiveSupport adds underscore to the String using the following:
class String def underscore self.gsub(/::/, '/'). gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1_\2'). gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1_\2'). tr("-", "_"). downcase end end
Then you can do fun stuff:
"CamelCase".underscore => "camel_case"
You can use
"CamelCasedName".tableize.singularize
Or just
"CamelCasedName".underscore
Both options ways will yield "camel_cased_name"
. You can check more details it here.
One-liner Ruby implementation:
class String # ruby mutation methods have the expectation to return self if a mutation occurred, nil otherwise. (see http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/String.html#method-i-gsub-21) def to_underscore! gsub!(/(.)([A-Z])/,'\1_\2') downcase! end def to_underscore dup.tap { |s| s.to_underscore! } end end
So "SomeCamelCase".to_underscore # =>"some_camel_case"
There is a Rails inbuilt method called 'underscore' that you can use for this purpose
"CamelCaseString".underscore #=> "camel_case_string"
The 'underscore' method can typically be considered as inverse of 'camelize'
Here's how Rails does it:
def underscore(camel_cased_word) camel_cased_word.to_s.gsub(/::/, '/'). gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1_\2'). gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1_\2'). tr("-", "_"). downcase end
Receiver converted to snake case: http://rubydoc.info/gems/extlib/0.9.15/String#snake_case-instance_method
This is the Support library for DataMapper and Merb. (http://rubygems.org/gems/extlib)
def snake_case return downcase if match(/\A[A-Z]+\z/) gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/, '\1_\2'). gsub(/([a-z])([A-Z])/, '\1_\2'). downcase end "FooBar".snake_case #=> "foo_bar" "HeadlineCNNNews".snake_case #=> "headline_cnn_news" "CNN".snake_case #=> "cnn"
Check out snakecase from Ruby Facets
The following cases are handled, as seen below:
"SnakeCase".snakecase #=> "snake_case" "Snake-Case".snakecase #=> "snake_case" "Snake Case".snakecase #=> "snake_case" "Snake - Case".snakecase #=> "snake_case"
From: https://github.com/rubyworks/facets/blob/master/lib/core/facets/string/snakecase.rb
class String # Underscore a string such that camelcase, dashes and spaces are # replaced by underscores. This is the reverse of {#camelcase}, # albeit not an exact inverse. # # "SnakeCase".snakecase #=> "snake_case" # "Snake-Case".snakecase #=> "snake_case" # "Snake Case".snakecase #=> "snake_case" # "Snake - Case".snakecase #=> "snake_case" # # Note, this method no longer converts `::` to `/`, in that case # use the {#pathize} method instead. def snakecase #gsub(/::/, '/'). gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1_\2'). gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1_\2'). tr('-', '_'). gsub(/\s/, '_'). gsub(/__+/, '_'). downcase end # alias_method :underscore, :snakecase # TODO: Add *separators to #snakecase, like camelcase. end
Short oneliner for CamelCases when you have spaces also included (doesn't work correctly if you have a word inbetween with small starting-letter):
a = "Test String" a.gsub(' ', '').underscore => "test_string"
I would like this:
class String # \n returns the capture group of "n" index def snikize self.gsub(/::/, '/') .gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/, "\1_\2") .downcase end # or def snikize self.gsub(/::/, '/') .gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/) do "#{$1}_#{$2}" end .downcase end end
Monkey patch of String
class. There are class that begin with two or more letters in uppercase.