Daily Challenge #95 - CamelCase Method

Write simple .camelCase method (camel_case function in PHP, CamelCase in C# or camelCase in Java) for strings. All words must have their first letter capitalized without spaces.

For instance:

camelcase("hello case") => HelloCase
camelcase("camel case word") => CamelCaseWord

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Comments

[SavagePixie]

Replace to the rescue!

const camelCase = str => str.replace(/\s([a-z])/g, (_, x) => x.toUpperCase())

[Rafael Acioly]

very clever :)

[Mihail Malo]

Doesn't match the first word, should be /(?:^|\s)([a-z])/g for that or something.

[SavagePixie]

I don't capitalise the first word of a camelCase construct. As far as I'm aware, it isn't customary in JavaScript.

But you are right, if one were to capitalise the first word as well, the regular expression would have to be modified accordingly.

[Avalander]

The confusion is because the description says camelCase but they mean PascalCase.

[La blatte]

Here comes a naive oneliner:

camel=s=>s.split` `.map(e=>e[0].toUpperCase()+e.slice(1).toLowerCase()).join``

For every word, it uppercases its first letter and lowercases the following ones

[Balaji K]

Nice one liner :). But if s is an empty string, then str[0] will be undefined and toUpperCase will throw an error.

[Jacob Evans]

It's not about finding edge cases. This is a great solution for a coding challenge... Most coding challenges are things you'd put in production anyways

[K.V.Harish]

My solution in js

const camelCase = (words = '') => words.split(' ')
                                       .map(word => `${word.charAt(0).toUpperCase()}${word.slice(1).toLowerCase()}`)
                                       .join('');

[Asfo]

Maybe not the best option :) but it works.
JS:

const camelCase = (str) => { if(typeof str !== 'string') { throw 'Not a string'; } return str.trim().toLowerCase().split(' ').map(el => { return el[0].toUpperCase() + el.slice(1); }).join(''); }

[Ricardo Delgado]

JS

var camelcase = (s) => {
    var o = new Object(s)
    return o.split` `
                 .map(p => p.split``
                       .map((q, i) => i === 0 ? q.toUpperCase(): q)
                                .join``)
                                        .join``
}

[Blessed T Mahuni]

A beginner solution

function camelCase(stringToBeCamelCased) {
  let wordsArr = stringToBeCamelCased.split(' ')
  let casedWordsArr = []
  for (const word of wordsArr) {
    let casedWord = []
    for (let i = 0; i < word.length; i++) {
      if(i == 0)
        casedWord.push(word[i].toUpperCase())
      else
        casedWord.push(word[i])
    }
    casedWordsArr.push(casedWord.join(''))
  }

  return casedWordsArr.join('')
}

// refined

function camelCaseV2(stringToBeCamelCased) {
  let casedWordsArr = []
  stringToBeCamelCased.split(' ').forEach(word => {
    casedWordsArr.push(word[0].toUpperCase() + word.slice(1))
  })
  return casedWordsArr.join('')
}

[Amin]

Haskell

import Data.Char

(|>) = flip ($)

split :: String -> [String]
split [] = [""]
split (character : characters)
    | character == ' ' = "" : rest
    | otherwise = (character : head rest) : tail rest
    where rest = split characters

uppercase :: String -> String
uppercase string =
    map toUpper string

lowercase :: String -> String
lowercase string =
    map toLower string

capitalize :: String -> String
capitalize string =
    uppercase firstCharacter ++ lowercase remainingCharacters
    where
        firstCharacter :: String
        firstCharacter = take 1 string

        remainingCharacters :: String
        remainingCharacters = drop 1 string

join :: [String] -> String
join strings =
    foldl (++) "" strings

camelcase :: String -> String
camelcase string =
    string
        |> split
        |> map capitalize
        |> join

main :: IO ()
main = do
    print $ camelcase "hello case"      -- HelloCase
    print $ camelcase "camel case word" -- CamelCaseWord

Source-Code

Available on repl.it.

[gholden]

  const camelcase = (stringToConvert) => {
    const stringArray = stringToConvert.trim().split(" ")
    const camel =  stringArray.map(indie => {
      return indie[0].toUpperCase() + indie.slice(1)
    })
    return camel.join('');
  }

[willsmart]

I agree with SavagePixie. replace is the way to go if you're in JS!

Here's an extended version that covers all the cases I can think of...

const toUpperCamelCase = str => str.replace(
  /[^a-zA-Z]*([a-zA-Z]?)([a-z]+|[A-Z]*)/g,
  (_, firstLetter, rest) => firstLetter.toUpperCase() + rest.toLowerCase()
);

> [
  'Fudge And Sprite', // Words
  'fudge and sprite', // words
  'fudge-and-sprite', // kebab-case
  'fudge_and_sprite', // underscore_case
  'fudgeAndSprite',   // lowerCamelCase
  'FudgeAndSprite',   // UpperCamelCase stays as it is
  'FUDGE_AND_SPRITE', // CONSTANT_CASE
  'fUDGEaNDsPRITE',   // um, uPSIDEDOWNcASE I guess
  '>>> Fudge,    (and SPRITE!)' // or whatevs
].map(toUpperCamelCase);
< ["FudgeAndSprite", "FudgeAndSprite", "FudgeAndSprite", "FudgeAndSprite", "FudgeAndSprite", "FudgeAndSprite", "FudgeAndSprite", "FudgeAndSprite", "FudgeAndSprite"]

Regex:

test in Debuggex

[Rafael Acioly]

def to_camel_case(value: str) -> str:
    content = value.split(' ')
    return content[0] + ''.join(
        word.title()
        for word in content[1:] 
        if not word.isspace()
    )

This test was easy because i've written a python package that convert snake_case to camelCase and vice-versa :)

github.com/rafa-acioly/animal_case