Separate string in php by upper case letters

Question

I'm developing an application that takes a full name of a person and then processes it. For example, if the user enters the name like this:

"AlanMichel"

Then the result must be:

"Alan Michel"

I didn't know how I can do that in the php. Anyone can help please?

With minimal modification, you can use this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/19533226/1207049 — marekful, Jan 17 '18 at 03:57

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '18 at 03:58

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You can do:

$str = "AlanMichel";
$name = preg_split('/(?=[A-Z])/',$str);

echo implode( " ", $name );

This will result to:

Alan Michel

answered Jan 17 '18 at 03:58

Eddie

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '18 at 03:57

Try this

function splitAtUpperCase($s) {
        return preg_split('/(?=[A-Z])/', $s, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
}

$str = "AlanMichel";
$strArray = splitAtUpperCase($str));
echo $strArray[0]; //first name
echo $strArray[1]; //second name

Output

Alan
Michel

If you don't need the array itself, you can just preprend uppercase characters (except the first) with a space

echo  preg_replace('/(?<!^)([A-Z])/', ' \\1', $str);

Separate string in php by upper case letters

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