Splitting CamelCase

Question

This is all asp.net c#.

I have an enum

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


        

Answer 1

You can use C# extension methods

        public static string SpacesFromCamel(this string value)
        {
            if (value.Length > 0)
            {
                var result = new List<char>();
                char[] array = value.ToCharArray();
                foreach (var item in array)
                {
                    if (char.IsUpper(item) && result.Count > 0)
                    {
                        result.Add(' ');
                    }
                    result.Add(item);
                }

                return new string(result.ToArray());
            }
            return value;
        }

Then you can use it like

var result = "TestString".SpacesFromCamel();

Result will be

Test String

Answer 2

public enum ControlSelectionType    
{   
    NotApplicable = 1,   
    SingleSelectRadioButtons = 2,   
    SingleSelectDropDownList = 3,   
    MultiSelectCheckBox = 4,   
    MultiSelectListBox = 5   
} 
public class NameValue
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public object Value { get; set; }
}    
public static List<NameValue> EnumToList<T>(bool camelcase)
        {
            var array = (T[])(Enum.GetValues(typeof(T)).Cast<T>()); 
            var array2 = Enum.GetNames(typeof(T)).ToArray<string>(); 
            List<NameValue> lst = null;
            for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
            {
                if (lst == null)
                    lst = new List<NameValue>();
                string name = "";
                if (camelcase)
                {
                    name = array2[i].CamelCaseFriendly();
                }
                else
                    name = array2[i];
                T value = array[i];
                lst.Add(new NameValue { Name = name, Value = value });
            }
            return lst;
        }
        public static string CamelCaseFriendly(this string pascalCaseString)
        {
            Regex r = new Regex("(?<=[a-z])(?<x>[A-Z])|(?<=.)(?<x>[A-Z])(?=[a-z])");
            return r.Replace(pascalCaseString, " ${x}");
        }

//In  your form 
protected void Button1_Click1(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            DropDownList1.DataSource = GeneralClass.EnumToList<ControlSelectionType  >(true); ;
            DropDownList1.DataTextField = "Name";
            DropDownList1.DataValueField = "Value";

            DropDownList1.DataBind();
        }

Answer 3

Simple version similar to some of the above, but with logic to not auto-insert the separator (which is by default, a space, but can be any char) if there's already one at the current position.

Uses a StringBuilder rather than 'mutating' strings.

public static string SeparateCamelCase(this string value, char separator = ' ') {

    var sb = new StringBuilder();
    var lastChar = separator;

    foreach (var currentChar in value) {

        if (char.IsUpper(currentChar) && lastChar != separator)
            sb.Append(separator);

        sb.Append(currentChar);

        lastChar = currentChar;
    }

    return sb.ToString();
}

Example:

Input  : 'ThisIsATest'
Output : 'This Is A Test'

Input  : 'This IsATest'
Output : 'This Is A Test' (Note: Still only one space between 'This' and 'Is')

Input  : 'ThisIsATest' (with separator '_')
Output : 'This_Is_A_Test'