How to convert PascalCase to pascal_case?

Question

If I had:

$string = \"PascalCase\";

I need

\"pascal_case\"

Does PHP offer a function for this purpose?

Answer 1

Ported from Ruby's String#camelize and String#decamelize.

function decamelize($word) {
  return preg_replace(
    '/(^|[a-z])([A-Z])/e', 
    'strtolower(strlen("\\1") ? "\\1_\\2" : "\\2")',
    $word 
  ); 
}

function camelize($word) { 
  return preg_replace('/(^|_)([a-z])/e', 'strtoupper("\\2")', $word); 
}

One trick the above solutions may have missed is the 'e' modifier which causes preg_replace to evaluate the replacement string as PHP code.