Split word by capital letter

Question

I want to split a word by capital letter in PHP

For example:

$string = "facebookPageUrl";

I want it like this:

$array = array("facebook", "Page", "Url");

How should I do it? I want the shortest and most efficient way.

score 17 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 10 '12 at 09:56

17

preg_split('/(?=\p{Lu})/u', $str)

Here \p{Lu} is a character class of all Unicode uppercase letters. If you just work with US-ASCII characters, you could also use [A-Z] instead.

edited Mar 10 '12 at 09:56

Soner Gönül

answered Mar 10 '12 at 09:46

Gumbo

@JohnSmith You’ve found it where? Another SO question? – Gumbo Mar 10 '12 at 09:50
in php.net i found something like this – John Smith Mar 10 '12 at 09:52

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 10 '12 at 09:46

4

$string = "facebookPageUrl";

preg_match_all('((?:^|[A-Z])[^A-Z]*)', $string, $matches);
var_dump($matches);

answered Mar 10 '12 at 09:46

zerkms

2 Answers2