diff --git a/snippets/toPascalCase.md b/snippets/toPascalCase.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d40e8d2f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/snippets/toPascalCase.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: toPascalCase +tags: string,regexp,intermediate +firstSeen: 2021-09-08T19:21:13+00:00 +--- + +Converts a string to pascal case. + +- Use `String.prototype.match()` to break the string into words using an appropriate regexp. +- Use `Array.prototype.map()`, `Array.prototype.slice()`, `Array.prototype.join()`, `String.prototype.toUpperCase()` and `String.prototype.toLowerCase()` to combine them, capitalizing the first letter of each word and lowercasing the rest. + +```js +const toPascalCase = str => + str + .match(/[A-Z]{2,}(?=[A-Z][a-z]+[0-9]*|\b)|[A-Z]?[a-z]+[0-9]*|[A-Z]|[0-9]+/g) + .map(x => x.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + x.slice(1).toLowerCase()) + .join(''); +``` + +```js +toPascalCase('some_database_field_name'); // 'SomeDatabaseFieldName' +toPascalCase('Some label that needs to be pascalized'); +// 'SomeLabelThatNeedsToBePascalized' +toPascalCase('some-javascript-property'); // 'SomeJavascriptProperty' +toPascalCase('some-mixed_string with spaces_underscores-and-hyphens'); +// 'SomeMixedStringWithSpacesUnderscoresAndHyphens' +```