Add spaces between words in a camelCased string then uppercase the first word

Question

I have two types of strings, hello and helloThere.

What I want is to change them so they read like: Hello and Hello There depending on the case.

What would be a good way of doing this?

Answer 1

you can use ucwords like everyone said... to add the space in helloThere you can do $with_space = preg_replace('/[A-Z]/'," $0",$string); then ucwords($with_space);

Answer 2

Use the ucwords function:

Returns a string with the first character of each word in str capitalized, if that character is alphabetic.

The definition of a word is any string of characters that is immediately after a whitespace (These are: space, form-feed, newline, carriage return, horizontal tab, and vertical tab).

This will not split up words that are slammed together - you will have to add spaces to the string as needed for this function to work.

Answer 3

PHP has many string manipulation functions. ucfirst() would do it for you.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ucfirst.php

Answer 4

Use the ucwords function:

echo ucwords('hello world');

Answer 5

To convert CamelCase to different words:

preg_replace('/([^A-Z])([A-Z])/', "$1 $2", $string)

To uppercase all the words first letters:

ucwords()

So together:

ucwords(preg_replace('/([^A-Z])([A-Z])/', "$1 $2", $string))

Answer 6

use ucwords

<?php
$foo = 'hello world';
$foo = ucwords($foo);             // Hello world

$bar = 'BONJOUR TOUT LE MONDE!';
$bar = ucwords($bar);             // HELLO WORLD
$bar = ucwords(strtolower($bar)); // Hello World
?>

Answer 7

You don't need to capture any letters to inject the space between words -- a lookahead will do nicely. Then apply a multibyte-safe title-case function after adding the spaces.

Code: (Demo)

echo mb_convert_case(
         preg_replace('~(?=\p{Lu})~u', ' ','helloThere'),
         MB_CASE_TITLE
     );
// Hello There

Answer 8

To make shure it works on other languages, the UTF-8 might be a good idea to implement. Im using this water proof for any languages in my wordpress installs.

$str = mb_ucfirst($str, 'UTF-8', true);

This make first letter uppercase and all other lowercase. If the third arg is set to false (default), the rest of the string is not manipulated. However, someone here might suggest an argument to re-use the function itself and mb uppercase each word after the first one, to be a more exact answer to the question.

// Extends PHP
if (!function_exists('mb_ucfirst')) {

function mb_ucfirst($str, $encoding = "UTF-8", $lower_str_end = false) {
    $first_letter = mb_strtoupper(mb_substr($str, 0, 1, $encoding), $encoding);
    $str_end = "";
    if ($lower_str_end) {
        $str_end = mb_strtolower(mb_substr($str, 1, mb_strlen($str, $encoding), $encoding), $encoding);
    } else {
        $str_end = mb_substr($str, 1, mb_strlen($str, $encoding), $encoding);
    }
    $str = $first_letter . $str_end;
    return $str;
}

}

/ Lundman