CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
A step beyond Jared Rypka-Hauer's nameCase UDF (http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=1384), I took this idea from Rails, and I'm sure they didn't do it first. It is especially useful in reading through database names and columns and formatting them for users. Nothing original, but pretty useful.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfoutput>#humanize("first_name")#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

<!---
 Takes a string and humanizes it, removing underscores and capitalizing each word.
 
 @param text      String to parse. (Required)
 @return Returns a string. 
 @author Christopher Warren (cwarren@imagetrend.com) 
 @version 1, July 23, 2007 
--->
<cffunction name="humanize" access="public" returntype="string" output="false">
    <cfargument name="text" type="string" required="true" />
    <cfset arguments.text= ucase(arguments.text)>
    <cfset arguments.text= replace(arguments.text,"_"," ","all")>
    <cfreturn reReplace(arguments.text,"([[:upper:]])([[:upper:]]*)","\1\L\2\E","all") />
</cffunction>