Friday Programming Quiz [modified]

[Shog9 0]

Now, with extra dirt!

function DisplayNameFromColumnName(colName)
{
return colName.match(/([A-Z](?:[A-Z]*(?=[A-Z]|$)|[^A-Z]+))/g).join(' ');
}

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

Right direction but can be further simplified:).

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[Alvaro Mendez]

One implementation, in C#:

string DisplayNameFromColumnName(string value)
{
return Regex.Replace(Regex.Replace(value, "([a-z])([A-Z])", "$1 $2"), "([A-Z])([A-Z][a-z])", "$1 $2");
}

Regards, Alvaro

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[Nish Nishant]

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

Right direction but can be further simplified.

I forgot about the capture syntax in C# - so didn't use them :-)

Regards, Nish

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[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

I prefer String.replace to join.

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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

Christian Graus wrote:

IUseHTMLALot

Yes! But this is a fun Quiz ignore those issues.

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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

[Nish Nishant]

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

Right direction but can be further simplified.

Simpliefied version :-

static string Func(string str)
{
return new Regex("([a-z])([A-Z])").Replace(
new Regex("([A-Z])([a-z])").Replace(str, " $1$2"), "$1 $2");
}

Regards, Nish

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[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

What about something like "Name";)

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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

[Steve Echols]

Seeing all these solutions reminds me I really need to learn regex. :^)

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[PIEBALDconsult]

I can put SPACEs in my column names; it's not a good idea, but I can. I suppose I can get the description from the metadata and use that if it's not empty. And I just don't think there's a 100% fool-proof way of doing the task, so why bother?

[Shog9 0]

I wrote it that way at first, then realized it was leaving an extra space on the end, then got bored and switched to join(). I like join(). I've seen it poorly-implemented too often not to love a library implementation. ;)

[Shog9 0]

Christian Graus wrote:

IUseHTMLALot

I hate those. It may be incorrect, but i'll still write it as IUseHtmlALot.

[Nish Nishant]

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

What about something like "Name"

Blast! It adds a space to the beginning. Oh well, a call to Trim() should fix that.

Regards, Nish

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[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

I agree that there is no 100% fool proof way esp. for cases like IUseHTMLALot or XMLValue. But this is for fun.

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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

[Chris Losinger]

as long as you're taking out the CAPSLower case

string DisplayNameFromColumnName(const char*l)
{
string O = "";

while (\*l)
{
	O += \*l;
	O += (islower(\*l) && isupper(\*(l+1))) ? " " : "";
	l++;
}

return O;

}

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[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

BTW: Probably that is why the .NET naming guidelines state that any acronym > 2 letters should not be all capitalized.

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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

[Matt Gerrans]

Well, all we need to do is just compile his solution with the Plain English compiler and try it out! Grande?

Matt Gerrans

[Shog9 0]

Don't feel like firing up the compiler, but felt like being old-school...

/*
* colName points to column name, cannot be NULL
* output points to buffer suitable for holding display name, cannot be NULL
* maxOutputLen is the maximum number of characters that can be stored in output,
* excluding the inevitable NULL terminator. output must be maxOutputLen+1 chars in length
*/
char* DisplayNameFromColumnName(const char* colName, char* output, int maxOutputLen)
{
int inPos = 0;
int outPos = 0;
while ( colName[inPos] && outPos < maxOutputLen)
{
if ( isupper(colName[inPos]) && colName[inPos+1] && !isupper(colName[inPos+1]) )
{
output[outPos++] = ' ';
if ( outPos == maxOutputLen )
break;
}
output[outPos++] = colName[inPos++];
}
output[outPos] = '\0';

return output;
}

[Matt Gerrans]

IUseHTMLALot is problematic, but XMLValue seems okay. If you have any sequence of caps followed by lowercase, then you break before the last cap, right?

Matt Gerrans

[PIEBALDconsult]

I can't. If I do a thing I want to do it right (or at least handle all the known problems). How about fields "PriceAtCompUSA" and "IsOwnedByPaulMcCartney" Plus, breaking the field names will make it difficult to parse the resultant file. It's just not worth the effort. Well, unless I'm getting paid.