To humanize is to make something friendlier to humans. Humanizing makes things more civilized, refined, and understandable.
Questions tagged [humanize]
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How do I convert CamelCase into human-readable names in Java?
I'd like to write a method that converts CamelCase into a human-readable name.
Here's the test case:
public void testSplitCamelCase() {
assertEquals("lowercase", splitCamelCase("lowercase"));
assertEquals("Class", splitCamelCase("Class"));
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Frederik
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How to capitalize the first character of each word, or the first character of a whole string, with C#?
I could write my own algorithm to do it, but I feel there should be the equivalent to ruby's humanize in C#.
I googled it but only found ways to humanize dates.
Examples:
A way to turn "Lorem Lipsum Et" into "Lorem lipsum et"
A way to turn "Lorem…
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Title case a string containing one or more last names while handling names with apostrophes
I want to standardize a user-supplied string. I'd like the first letter to be capitalized for the name and if they have entered two last names, then capitalize the first and second names. For example, if someone enters:
marriedname maidenname
It…
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Natural/Relative days in Python
I'd like a way to show natural times for dated items in Python. Similar to how Twitter will show a message from "a moment ago", "a few minutes ago", "two hours ago", "three days ago", etc.
Django 1.0 has a "humanize" method in django.contrib. I'm…
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Django humanize outside of template?
I know I can use the humanize module to convert date/time to a friendlier format in the django templates. I was wondering if I can convert those things outside the templates. For example in a views.py function or a models.py class(meaning outside of…
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Make big and small numbers human-readable
I would like to print my very small numbers in C# in a human friendly way, such as:
30µ for 3E-5 or 456.789n for 0.000000456789.
I know of the Humanize_number() function from BSD in C, but only compatible with bit ints, not floats and doubles. Is…
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How to display "x days ago" type time using Humanize in Django template?
When I do this:
{% load humanize %}
{{ video.pub_date|naturaltime|capfirst }}
I get 2 days, 19 hours ago
How can I get just 2 days without the hours. Basically if the video was published in less than a day ago then it should say X hours ago, then…
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Humanize a string in JavaScript
How do I humanize a string? Based on the following criteria:
Deletes leading underscores, if any.
Replaces underscores with spaces, if any.
Capitalizes the first word.
For example:
this is a test -> This is a test
foo Bar Baz -> Foo bar…
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How to get human readable class name in Ruby on Rails?
I am building an application with Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.0.9
I have a class like below.
module CDA
class Document
def humanize_class_name
self.class.name.gsub("::","")
end
end
end
I want the class name like "CDADocument".
Is my…
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How to properly calculate remaining time in JS using getTime() from the two dates?
I'm trying to calculate remaining time (ex: 10 years, 2 months and 10 days from today(2014/03/02) in JS using this function:
var d2 = new Date(2024, 3, 12);
var d1 = new Date();
var d0 = new Date(1970, 0, 1);
var diff = new Date(d2.getTime() -…
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Formatting Large Numbers with .NET
I have a requirement to format large numbers like 4,316,000 as "4.3m".
How can I do this in C#?
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From: "1 hour ago", To: timedelta + accuracy
Is there a function to 'reverse humanize' times?
For example, given (strings):
'1 minute ago'
'7 hours ago'
'5 days ago'
'2 months ago'
Could return (apologies for the pseudo-code):
datetime.now() - timedelta (1 minute), accuracy (60…
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How to use django.contrib.humanize in a model
I would like to use the django.contrib.humanize outside of a template, actually inside a model to humanize some dates in some text messages.
Is it possible? How can I do this?
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What are the best ways to prevent fake registrations?
I would like to know more about the solutions to restrict registering for a website for humans only.
Captcha may seem a proper solution but as it turns out it's not as good as it sounds.
And it's not a problem if a solution is not an option for…
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Make first letter of each word/name uppercase, unless a known all-lowercase component of a surname
I use PHP to insert form entries into a MySQL database. Sometimes users enter text in all caps. Is there any way to change it so that only the first letters are capitalized? ucwords(strtolower($word)) won't work for me because I do not want to…
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