sqlregexsnowflake-cloud-data-platformpascalcasingsnakecasing

Change the values in a column from PascalCase to snake_case using SQL

I have a table in snowflake that looks like this:

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|      fieldname     |
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|thisIsTestOne       |
|thisIsTestTwo       |
|this_test           |
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I need to convert the PascalCase values in the column to snake_case. Note: I only want to convert them to snake_case if they are PascalCase. The output should look like this;

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|      fieldname     |    newfieldname     |
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|thisIsTestOne       |this_is_test_one     |
|thisIsTestTwo       |this_is_test_two     |
|this_test           |this_test            |
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Solution

  • You should be able to use REGEXP_REPLACE to insert an underscore between a lower-case character followed by an upper-case character, and then LOWER to convert to lower case i.e.

    SELECT LOWER(REGEXP_REPLACE(fieldname, '([a-z])([A-Z])', '\\1_\\2'))
FROM yourtable