Camel case is a language-independent naming convention in which an identifier name will start with a lowercase letter and each additional word within the name will start uppercase, such as customerName, printInvoice, etc.
Questions tagged [camelcasing]
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What is the naming convention in Python for variables and functions?
Coming from a C# background the naming convention for variables and methods are usually either camelCase or PascalCase:
// C# example
string thisIsMyVariable = "a"
public void ThisIsMyMethod()
In Python, I have seen the above but I have also seen…
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JSON Naming Convention (snake_case, camelCase or PascalCase)
Is there a standard on JSON naming?I see most examples using all lower case separated by underscore, aka snake_case, but can it be used PascalCase or camelCase as well?
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Acronyms in CamelCase
I have a doubt about CamelCase. Suppose you have this acronym: Unesco = United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
You should write: unitedNationsEducationalScientificAndCulturalOrganization
But what if you need to write the…
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Elegant Python function to convert CamelCase to snake_case?
Example:
>>> convert('CamelCase')
'camel_case'
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How can I return camelCase JSON serialized by JSON.NET from ASP.NET MVC controller methods?
My problem is that I wish to return camelCased (as opposed to the standard PascalCase) JSON data via ActionResults from ASP.NET MVC controller methods, serialized by JSON.NET.
As an example consider the following C# class:
public class Person
{
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Converting any string into camel case
How can I convert a string into camel case using javascript regex?
EquipmentClass name or
Equipment className or equipment class name or Equipment Class Name
should all become: equipmentClassName.
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How to navigate through the source code by parts in CamelCase (instead of whole words)?
I remember when I was using Eclipse that when holding CTRL and using left or right arrows Eclipse would navigate over the LongCamelCaseWrittenWord in several steps. One camel case word at time.
So it will go like follows (pipe | represents the…
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Convert hyphens to camel case (camelCase)
With regex (i assume) or some other method, how can i convert things like:
marker-image or my-example-setting to markerImage or myExampleSetting.
I was thinking about just splitting by - then convert the index of that hypen +1 to uppercase. But it…
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Convert JSON style properties names to Java CamelCase names with GSON
I'm using GSON to convert JSON data I get to a Java object. It works pretty well in all my tests.
The problem is that our real objects have some properties named like is_online. GSON only maps them if they are named totally equal, it would be nice…
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What are the different kinds of cases?
I'm interested in the different kinds of identifier cases, and what people call them. Do you know of any additions to this list, or other alternative names?
myIdentifier : Camel case (e.g. in java variable names)
MyIdentifier : Capital camel case…
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Should Python class filenames also be camelCased?
I know that classes in Python are typically cased using camelCase.
Is it also the normal convention to have the file that contains the class also be camelCase'd especially if the file only contains the class?
For example, should class className also…
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Convert String To camelCase from TitleCase C#
I have a string that I converted to a TextInfo.ToTitleCase and removed the underscores and joined the string together. Now I need to change the first and only the first character in the string to lower case and for some reason, I can not figure out…
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RegEx to split camelCase or TitleCase (advanced)
I found a brilliant RegEx to extract the part of a camelCase or TitleCase expression.
(? value
camelValue -> camel / Value
TitleValue -> Title / Value
For example with Java:
String s =…
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Why True/False is capitalized in Python?
All members are camel case, right? Why True/False but not true/false, which is more relaxed?
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How to do CamelCase split in python
What I was trying to achieve, was something like this:
>>> camel_case_split("CamelCaseXYZ")
['Camel', 'Case', 'XYZ']
>>> camel_case_split("XYZCamelCase")
['XYZ', 'Camel', 'Case']
So I searched and found this perfect regular…
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