Splitting CamelCase

Question

This is all asp.net c#.

I have an enum

public enum ControlSelectionType 
{
    NotApplicable = 1,
    SingleSelectRadioButtons = 2,
    SingleSelectD         


        

Answer 1

Using LINQ:

var chars = ControlSelectionType.NotApplicable.ToString().SelectMany((x, i) => i > 0 && char.IsUpper(x) ? new char[] { ' ', x } : new char[] { x });

Console.WriteLine(new string(chars.ToArray()));

Answer 2

This regex (^[a-z]+|[A-Z]+(?![a-z])|[A-Z][a-z]+) can be used to extract all words from the camelCase or PascalCase name. It also works with abbreviations anywhere inside the name.

• MyHTTPServer will contain exactly 3 matches: My, HTTP, Server
• myNewXMLFile will contain 4 matches: my, New, XML, File

You could then join them into a single string using string.Join.

string name = "myNewUIControl";
string[] words = Regex.Matches(name, "(^[a-z]+|[A-Z]+(?![a-z])|[A-Z][a-z]+)")
    .OfType<Match>()
    .Select(m => m.Value)
    .ToArray();
string result = string.Join(" ", words);

Answer 3

If C# 3.0 is an option you can use the following one-liner to do the job:

Regex.Matches(YOUR_ENUM_VALUE_NAME, "[A-Z][a-z]+").OfType<Match>().Select(match => match.Value).Aggregate((acc, b) => acc + " " + b).TrimStart(' ');

Answer 4

Tillito's answer does not handle strings already containing spaces well, or Acronyms. This fixes it:

public static string SplitCamelCase(string input)
{
    return Regex.Replace(input, "(?<=[a-z])([A-Z])", " $1", RegexOptions.Compiled);
}

Answer 5

Try this:

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        Console
            .WriteLine(
                SeparateByCamelCase("TestString") == "Test String" // True
            );
    }

    public static string SeparateByCamelCase(string str)
    {
        return String.Join(" ", SplitByCamelCase(str));
    }

    public static IEnumerable<string> SplitByCamelCase(string str) 
    {
        if (str.Length == 0) 
            return new List<string>();

        return 
            new List<string> 
            { 
                Head(str) 
            }
            .Concat(
                SplitByCamelCase(
                    Tail(str)
                )
            );
    }

    public static string Head(string str)
    {
        return new String(
                    str
                        .Take(1)
                        .Concat(
                            str
                                .Skip(1)
                                .TakeWhile(IsLower)
                        )
                        .ToArray()
                );
    }

    public static string Tail(string str)
    {
        return new String(
                    str
                        .Skip(
                            Head(str).Length
                        )
                        .ToArray()
                );
    }

    public static bool IsLower(char ch) 
    {
        return ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z';
    }
}

See sample online

Answer 6

Indeed a regex/replace is the way to go as described in the other answer, however this might also be of use to you if you wanted to go a different direction

    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Reflection;

...

    public static string GetDescription(System.Enum value)
    {
        FieldInfo fi = value.GetType().GetField(value.ToString());
        DescriptionAttribute[] attributes = (DescriptionAttribute[])fi.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false);
        if (attributes.Length > 0)
            return attributes[0].Description;
        else
            return value.ToString();
    }

this will allow you define your Enums as

public enum ControlSelectionType 
{
    [Description("Not Applicable")]
    NotApplicable = 1,
    [Description("Single Select Radio Buttons")]
    SingleSelectRadioButtons = 2,
    [Description("Completely Different Display Text")]
    SingleSelectDropDownList = 3,
}

Taken from

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-412868.html