How to convert “camelCase” to “Camel Case”?

Question

I’ve been trying to get a JavaScript regex command to turn something like \"thisString\" into \"This String\" but the closest I’ve gotten is replac

Answer 1

Lodash handles this nicely with _.startCase()

Answer 2

Not regex, but useful to know plain and old techniques like this:

var origString = "thisString";
var newString = origString.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + origString.substring(1);

Answer 3

I had an idle interest in this, particularly in handling sequences of capitals, such as in xmlHTTPRequest. The listed functions would produce "Xml H T T P Request" or "Xml HTTPRequest", mine produces "Xml HTTP Request".

function unCamelCase (str){
    return str
        // insert a space between lower & upper
        .replace(/([a-z])([A-Z])/g, '$1 $2')
        // space before last upper in a sequence followed by lower
        .replace(/\b([A-Z]+)([A-Z])([a-z])/, '$1 $2$3')
        // uppercase the first character
        .replace(/^./, function(str){ return str.toUpperCase(); })
}

There's also a String.prototype version in a gist.

Answer 4

My version

function camelToSpace (txt) {
  return txt
    .replace(/([^A-Z]*)([A-Z]*)([A-Z])([^A-Z]*)/g, '$1 $2 $3$4')
    .replace(/ +/g, ' ')
}
camelToSpace("camelToSpaceWithTLAStuff") //=> "camel To Space With TLA Stuff"

Answer 5

A solution that handles numbers as well:

function capSplit(str){
   return str.replace
      ( /(^[a-z]+)|[0-9]+|[A-Z][a-z]+|[A-Z]+(?=[A-Z][a-z]|[0-9])/g
      , function(match, first){
          if (first) match = match[0].toUpperCase() + match.substr(1);
          return match + ' ';
          }
       )
   }

Tested here [JSFiddle, no library. Not tried IE]; should be pretty stable.

Answer 6

Try this solution here -

var value = "myCamelCaseText";
var newStr = '';
for (var i = 0; i < value.length; i++) {
  if (value.charAt(i) === value.charAt(i).toUpperCase()) {
    newStr = newStr + ' ' + value.charAt(i)
  } else {
    (i == 0) ? (newStr += value.charAt(i).toUpperCase()) : (newStr += value.charAt(i));
  }
}
return newStr;