n Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Leon Vismer wrote:

> Hi
>
> I would like to convert from one naming convention within a sql statement to
> another.
>
> I have the following,
>
> <code>
> $str = "insert into userComment (userID, userName, userSurname) values (0,
> 'Leon', 'Vismer')";
>
> $match = array(
> "/([a-z]+)(ID)/",
> "/([a-z]+)([A-Z])/"
> );
>
> $replace = array(
> "\$1_id",
> "\$1_\$2"
> );
>
> $nstr = preg_replace($match, $replace, $str);
> echo $nstr ."\n";
> </code>
>
>
> the above gets me to
> insert into user_Comment (user_id, user_Name, user_Surname) values (0, 'Leon',
> 'Vismer')
>
> however I want to get to
>
> insert into user_comment (user_id, user_name, user_surname) values (0, 'Leon',
> 'Vismer')
>
> Some help from the regex experts ;-)


Just a quick note; why dont' you search on "user" since it's the constant and 
replace 'user[A-Z]' with 'user_[a-z]' or in the case of userID 'user[A-Z]{2}'

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