Any ideas?

Say I have a variable in a CSV that reads like FredBlogs_BusinessName it's easy to explode with _ to get name and business name values.

$data = explode("_",$data);

$clientname = $data['0'];

$businessname = $data['1'];

What would you suggest doing to take a value of  $clientname "FredBlogs" and have it return "Fred Blogs"

My abilities to hunt out a solution today seem to be diminished. Must need more coffee.

Thanks

two stage approach

regular expression to replace each capital letter with it's self, preceeded by a delimiter, eg

FredBlogs_BusinessName

becomes

|Fred|Blogs_|Business|Name

I've used a pipe here as an example, but it coloud be a space, hypen anything you want.

If it's a space, you can explode, trim and implode again to get a more friendly string - what you do with it is up to you!

Using posix (yes, I went away to look this up)

find pattern:
[A-Z]
replace string
-&

this puts a hypen - before all upper case letters

$pattern = "[A-Z]";

$string = "-&";



$new_var = ereg_replace($pattern,$string,$old_var);

 

Northie wrote:

Using posix (yes, I went away to look this up)

Code: php

$pattern = "[A-Z]";

$string = "-&";

WOW! Nice one thanks, I really appreciate the time you spent on digging that up for me! I wasn't thinking along the lines of ereg_replace so my mindset wasn't in regular expression

It didn't work the way I wanted it to so I played with the string and found that this was what I needed to get the desired results:

$old_var = "MaryHadALittleLamb";

$pattern = "[A-Z]";

$string = " \\0";

$new_var = ereg_replace($pattern,$string,$old_var);

echo "$new_var<hr />";

Took me ages to work out that \\0 was what I needed!

Northie, nice one thanks! Have a couple of beers on me!