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regexstringgo
worrum
worrum

Reputation: 90

How to replace symbol AND make next letter uppercase in Go

I'm beginner trainee in Go. I can't figure out how not just replace a symbol, but to make next letter Uppercase in Go.

Task: Complete the method/function so that it converts dash/underscore delimited words into camel casing. The first word within the output should be capitalized only if the original word was capitalized (known as Upper Camel Case, also often referred to as Pascal case).

I tried to implement regexp methods with:

re, _ := regexp.Compile(`/[-_]\w/ig`)
    res := re.FindAllStringSubmatch(s, -1)
return res

But i can't return res because it's slice/array, but i need to return just string.

My code:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func ToCamelCase(s string) string {
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "-", "")
    s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "_", "")
    return s
}

func main() {
    var s string
    fmt.Scan(&s)
    fmt.Println(ToCamelCase(s))
}

Input: "the-stealth-warrior" or "the_stealth_warrior"

Output: "theStealthWarrior" or "TheStealthWarrior"

My Output: thestealthwarrior

Upvotes: 2

Views: 767

Answers (1)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 626748

You need to define the regex without regex delimiters in Go string literals, and it is more convenient to use the ReplaceAllStringFunc function:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "regexp"
    "strings"
)

func ToCamelCase(s string) string {
    re, _ := regexp.Compile(`[-_]\w`)
    res := re.ReplaceAllStringFunc(s, func(m string) string {
        return strings.ToUpper(m[1:])
    })
    return res
}

func main() {
    s := "the-stealth-warrior"
    fmt.Println(ToCamelCase(s))
}

See the Go playground.

The output is theStealthWarrior.

The [-_]\w pattern matches a - or _ and then any word char. If you want to exclude _ from \w, use [^\W_] instead of \w.

Upvotes: 2

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