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Created December 12, 2012 15:32
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Ruby: Convert camelCase/PascalCase to snake_case.
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snake_case.rb
def snake_case
return downcase if match(/\A[A-Z]+\z/)
gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/, '\1_\2').
gsub(/([a-z])([A-Z])/, '\1_\2').
downcase
end
"FooBar".snake_case #=> "foo_bar"
"HeadlineCNNNews".snake_case #=> "headline_cnn_news"
"CNN".snake_case #=> "cnn"
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