CASE STYLES IN PROGRAMMING !

have you ever came across words like camel case ,snake case and wondered what actually they mean? 😕

In this Article I will be elaborating about the different case styles available in computer programming.

The most popular ways to combine words into a single string:

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• 🐫 camelCase: Camel case combines words by capitalizing all words following the first word and removing the space, as follows:

Raw:

the unconventional coder

Camel Case:

theUnconventionalCoder
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Use: Mainly in variable declaration.

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• Pascal Case : Pascal case combines words by capitalizing all words (even the first word) and removing the space, as follows:

Raw:

the unconventional coder

Pascal Case:

TheUnconventionalCoder

Use: Declaring classes

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• 🐍 Snake Case : Snake case combines words by replacing each space with an underscore (_) and, in the all caps version, all letters are capitalized, as follows:

Raw:

the unconventional coder

Snake Case:

the_unconventional_coder

Use : Used for naming constants.

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• Kebab Case : Kebab case combines words by replacing each space with a dash (-), as follows:

Raw:

the unconventional coder

Kebab Case:

the-unconventional-coder

Use : Used for naming URL's.

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Comments

[Mustapha Belmokhtar]

Note the kebab is a meal of meat especially cut into small pieces and joined by a tiny stick of wood or metal.
That's why that way of joining strings is called so, the hyphen stands for the empty space between the pieces of meat.

[ABHINAVA GHOSH (he/him)]

very practical example i must agree!

[John Mercier]

I just recently had to deal with this when generating classes for x11-client. The guava library has a class called CaseFormat which can perform conversions between the different formats programatically.

I used it here.