convert ThisIsAString to This Is A String

[Wickersty]

Hi folks,

I have a bunch of strings that are missing spaces, and I want to insert spaces every time I encounter a capital letter. I'm having a bit of a pickle trying to figure this out. Could someone lend some advice?

Many thanks.

An example is: "AWarmDay"

I want to convert to "A Warm Day"

thnx,

Jeff

 

[SpotsyRWH]

Looks like you would have to loop throught the string one character at a time and find the capitals.

When found you would need to take that letter attach a space to the begining and keep going.

Basically you would be rebuilding the string one character at a time.

I don't think REFind or REReplace will do the trick this time. I don't think they will tell you the specific character returned, and would simply just replace the found character with another.

 

[Wickersty]

But how do you determine what case a character is? LCase and UCase are functions to convert a character to a case, but they don't tell you what case a character is before hand...

that's where I'm stuck.

 

[webmigit]

Try...

<cfset tist = "ThisIsAString">
#ReReplace(tist,"[A-Z]"," \1","ALL")#

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[Wickersty]

<cfset tist = "ThisIsAString">
#ReReplace(tist,"[A-Z]"," \1","ALL")#

That gives me:

his s tring

It removes cap letters and replaces them with spaces. I don't want to lose the cap letters, I just want to insert a space before each cap letter.

 

[webmigit]

Duh! Try this, sorry.

<cfset tist = "ThisIsAString">
#ReReplace(tist,"([A-Z])"," \1","ALL")#

That gives me:

his s tring

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[Wickersty]

Right on. That worked perfectly. Thanks a million!