I have a method now that will convert my camelCase strings to kebab-case, but it's broken into three calls of preg_replace()
:
public function camelToKebab($string, $us = "-")
{
// insert hyphen between any letter and the beginning of a numeric chain
$string = preg_replace('/([a-z]+)([0-9]+)/i', '$1'.$us.'$2', $string);
// insert hyphen between any lower-to-upper-case letter chain
$string = preg_replace('/([a-z]+)([A-Z]+)/', '$1'.$us.'$2', $string);
// insert hyphen between the end of a numeric chain and the beginning of an alpha chain
$string = preg_replace('/([0-9]+)([a-z]+)/i', '$1' . $us . '$2', $string);
// Lowercase
$string = strtolower($string);
return $string;
}
I wrote tests to verify its accuracy, and it works properly with the following array of inputs (array('input' => 'output')
):
$test_values = [
'foo' => 'foo',
'fooBar' => 'foo-bar',
'foo123' => 'foo-123',
'123Foo' => '123-foo',
'fooBar123' => 'foo-bar-123',
'foo123Bar' => 'foo-123-bar',
'123FooBar' => '123-foo-bar',
];
I'm wondering if there's a way to reduce my preg_replace()
calls to a single line which will give me the same result. Any ideas?
NOTE: Referring to this post, my research has shown me a preg_replace()
regex that gets me almost the result I want, except it doesn't work on the example of foo123
to convert it to foo-123
.
You can use lookarounds to do all this in a single regex:
function camelToUnderscore($string, $us = "-") {
return strtolower(preg_replace(
'/(?<=\d)(?=[A-Za-z])|(?<=[A-Za-z])(?=\d)|(?<=[a-z])(?=[A-Z])/', $us, $string));
}
RegEx Description:
(?<=\d)(?=[A-Za-z]) # if previous position has a digit and next has a letter
| # OR
(?<=[A-Za-z])(?=\d) # if previous position has a letter and next has a digit
| # OR
(?<=[a-z])(?=[A-Z]) # if previous position has a lowercase and next has a uppercase letter