[thelist] Parsing camelcase text

[Matt McKeon]

Jack Timmons wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, misterhaan <misterhaan at track7.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Matt McKeon wrote:
>>     
>>> I thought the .*? bit would have caught the next characters, but
>>> apparently not.
>>>
>>>       
>> the dot means any character, the star means any number of the previous
>> character, and the question mark after the star means the shortest
>> possible match.  so .*? will always match a 0-length string.  instead of
>> .*? i'd probably go for [^A-Z]* for any number of characters that aren't
>> capital letters.
>> --
>>
>>     
>
> Sorry for the wait, craziness at work.
>
> $pattern = "/([A-Z][a-z0-9]+)/";
> $string = "MyTestString";
>
> preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches);
> print_r($matches);
>
> That should do it. Couldn't test it before, sorry.
>
> Note: That doesn't catch special characters, FYI. Let me know if what you
> need changes.
>
> -Jack
>
>   
Thanks Jack for your help, that pattern works now! I'm only concerned
with letters anyway.