So i am stuck - I have looked at tons of answers in here, but none seems to resolve my last problem.
Through an API with JSON, I receive an equipment list in a camelcase format. I can not change that.
I need this camelcase to be translated into normal language -
So far i have gotten most words seperated through:
$string = "SomeEquipmentHere";
$spaced = preg_replace('/([A-Z])/', ' $1', $string);
var_dump($spaced);
string ' Some Equipment Here' (length=20)
$trimmed = trim($spaced);
var_dump($trimmed);
string 'Some Equipment Here' (length=19)
Which is working fine - But in some of the equipments consists of abbreviations
"ABSBrakes" - this would require ABS and separated from Brakes
I can't check for several uppercases next to each other since it will then keep ABS and Brakes together - there are more like these, ie: "CDRadio"
So what is want is the output to be:
"ABS Brakes"
Is there a way to format it so, if there is uppercases next to eachother, then only add a space before the last uppercase letter of that sequence?
I am not strong in regex.
EDIT
Both contributions are awesome - people coming here later should read both answers
The last problems to consists are the following patterns :
"ServiceOK" becomes "Service O K"
"ESP" becomes "ES P"
The pattern only consisting of a pure uppercased abbreviation is fixed by a function counting lowercase letter, if there is none, it will skip over the preg_replace().
But as Flying wrote in the comments on his answer, there could potentially be a lot of instances not covered by his regex, and an answer could be impossible - I don't know if this could be a challenge for the regex.
Possibly by adding some "If there is not a lowercase after the uppercase, there should not be inserted a space" rule