Here was a question about the CamelCase regex. With the combination of tchrist post i'm wondering what is the correct utf-8 CamelCase.
Starting with (brian d foy's) regex:
/
\b # start at word boundary
[A-Z] # start with upper
[a-zA-Z]* # followed by any alpha
(?: # non-capturing grouping for alternation precedence
[a-z][a-zA-Z]*[A-Z] # next bit is lower, any zero or more, ending with upper
| # or
[A-Z][a-zA-Z]*[a-z] # next bit is upper, any zero or more, ending with lower
)
[a-zA-Z]* # anything that's left
\b # end at word
/x
and modifying to:
/
\b # start at word boundary
\p{Uppercase_Letter} # start with upper
\p{Alphabetic}* # followed by any alpha
(?: # non-capturing grouping for alternation precedence
\p{Lowercase_Letter}[a-zA-Z]*\p{Uppercase_Letter} ### next bit is lower, any zero or more, ending with upper
| # or
\p{Uppercase_Letter}[a-zA-Z]*\p{Lowercase_Letter} ### next bit is upper, any zero or more, ending with lower
)
\p{Alphabetic}* # anything that's left
\b # end at word
/x
Have a problem with lines marked '###'.
In addition, how to modify the regex when assuming than numbers and the underscore are equivalent to lowercase letters, so W2X3 is an valid CamelCase word.
Updated: (ysth comment)
for the next,
any
: mean "uppercase or lowercase or number or underscore"
The regex should match CamelWord, CaW
- start with uppercase letter
- optional any
- lowercase letter or number or underscore
- optional any
- upper case letter
- optional any
Please, do not mark as duplicate, because it is not. The original question (and answers too) thought only ascii.