Convert String To camelCase from TitleCase C#

Question

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 charact

Answer 1

Here's my code which is pretty simple. My major objective was to ensure that camel-casing was compatible with what ASP.NET serializes objects to, which the above examples don't guarantee.

public static class StringExtensions
{
    public static string ToCamelCase(this string name)
    {
        var sb = new StringBuilder();
        var i = 0;
        // While we encounter upper case characters (except for the last), convert to lowercase.
        while (i < name.Length - 1 && char.IsUpper(name[i + 1]))
        {
            sb.Append(char.ToLowerInvariant(name[i]));
            i++;
        }

        // Copy the rest of the characters as is, except if we're still on the first character - which is always lowercase.
        while (i < name.Length)
        {
            sb.Append(i == 0 ? char.ToLowerInvariant(name[i]) : name[i]);
            i++;
        }

        return sb.ToString();
    }
}