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Humanize an underscored or camel cased string in JavaScript
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| /** | |
| * Humanize a string. Turns underscored or camel cased string into human readable strings | |
| * | |
| * @example | |
| * TextUtils.humanize( 'keyword_category' ); // => "Keyword Category" | |
| * TextUtils.humanize( 'keywordCategory' ); // => "Keyword Category" | |
| * | |
| * @return {String} | |
| */ | |
| humanize: function(str) { | |
| return str | |
| .replace(/[A-Z]/g, function(match) { return '_' + match.charAt(0) + match.slice(1); }) | |
| .replace(/_/g, ' ') | |
| .replace(/(\w+)/g, function(match) { return match.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + match.slice(1); }); | |
| } |
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