CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Converts a camel-case or underscored var name to plain text.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfoutput>#varNameToText("thisIsTheVarName")#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

<!---
 Converts a camel-case or underscored var name to plain text.
 v2 mods by RCamden
 
 @param str      String to parse. (Required)
 @return Returns a string. 
 @author Tony Felice (sites@breckcomm.com) 
 @version 2, January 6, 2009 
--->
function varNameToText(str) {
    var words = "";
    var i = "";
    var output="";

    str = reReplace(str,"([.^[:upper:]])", " \1","all");
    str = reReplace(str,"([.^_])", " ","all");
    words = ListToArray(str, " ");    
    for(i=1; i LTE (ArrayLen(Words)); i=i+1){
        words[i] = ucase(mid(words[i],1, 1)) & mid(words[i],2, len(words[i])-1);
    }
    output = arrayToList(words, " ");        
    return output;
}