[thelist] Parsing camelcase text

[Matt McKeon]

Jack Timmons wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Matt McKeon <matt at camadro.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I need to separate words that are in CamelCased form. After trying to use
>> my
>> weak regular expressions skills, I came up with the following half working
>> solution: /([A-Z].*)([A-Z].*)/
>> That works on a string containing only 2 words, but some strings may
>> contain
>> more words. Can anyone help modify it to catch any number of words in a
>> string? I tried using a look ahead, but couldn't get it quite right.
>>
>> I'm doing this in PHP with preg_match().
>>
>> Thanks.
>>     
>
>
> preg_match_all() [1] without thinking hard should help
>
> /([A-Z].*?)/ for the regex.
>
> [1] - http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php
>   

Trying this with
$pattern = "/([A-Z].*?)/";
$string = "MyTestString";

preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches);
print_r($mathes);

Only matches the M, T, and S characters. Which I don't quite understand
why.  I thought the .*? bit would have caught the next characters, but
apparently not.