Discussion on: Solving "Spinal Tap Case" / freeCodeCamp Algorithm Challenges

[willsmart]

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"
]