Coding since 11yo, that makes it over 30 years now ~~~
Have a PhD in Comp Sci ~~~
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I try to stay as generalist as I can in this crazy wide place coding is at now.
Well, it's a trade-off. On the one hand "AAAA" is the word "A" four times in UpperCamelCase, on the other hand it's the word "AAAA" in CONSTANT_CASE. In the end the problem is just ambiguous.
You've solved the tradeoff by only breaking camelcase words where the next word has more than one char
That may be a fair strategy since it means that constant case is well covered, but does mean some pretty reasonable camel case sentences won't work. ("ThisIsASpinalTap" -> "this-isa-spinal-tap" )
In the end, it's about figuring out which cases are important and what rules you want to cover.
I think a good medium might be to take blocks of uppercase letters surrounded by non-letters, and stop them from being clobbered as camel case words by lowercasing them.
f=s=>s.replace(/(?<=[^A-Za-z]|^)[A-Z]+(?=[^A-Za-z]|$)/g,w=>w.toLowerCase()).replace(// edited to handle numbers a bit/(?<=[A-Za-z])(?=[A-Z0-9])|(?<=[0-9])(?=[A-Za-z])|[^A-Za-z0-9]+/g,'-').toLowerCase()a=["ThisIsASpinalTapAAAA","THIS_IS_A_SPINAL_TAP_A_A_A_A","thisIsASpinalTapAAAA","this-is-a-spinal-tap-a-a-a-a","this is a spinal tap a a a a"]a.map(f)// -> ["this-is-a-spinal-tap-a-a-a-a","this-is-a-spinal-tap-a-a-a-a","this-is-a-spinal-tap-a-a-a-a","this-is-a-spinal-tap-a-a-a-a","this-is-a-spinal-tap-a-a-a-a"]
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Well, it's a trade-off. On the one hand "AAAA" is the word "A" four times in UpperCamelCase, on the other hand it's the word "AAAA" in CONSTANT_CASE. In the end the problem is just ambiguous.
You've solved the tradeoff by only breaking camelcase words where the next word has more than one char
That may be a fair strategy since it means that constant case is well covered, but does mean some pretty reasonable camel case sentences won't work. ("ThisIsASpinalTap" -> "this-isa-spinal-tap" )
In the end, it's about figuring out which cases are important and what rules you want to cover.
I think a good medium might be to take blocks of uppercase letters surrounded by non-letters, and stop them from being clobbered as camel case words by lowercasing them.