On Wednesday, August 22, 2001, at 10:23 PM, Daniel Rall wrote:
> This implementation of removeUnderScores does *way* too much. In
> addition to doing what its name indicates, it also changes the case of
> the name parts. It looks like this was once used in Torque (but no
> longer). I'd like to bring this implementation in line with the name,
> unless anyone has a reason why I shouldn't. I would make it look just
> like the Commons Util version of the same name.
>
> static public String removeUnderScores (String data)
> {
> String temp = null;
> StringBuffer out = new StringBuffer();
> temp = data;
>
> StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(temp, "_");
>
> while (st.hasMoreTokens())
> {
> String element = (String) st.nextElement();
> out.append ( firstLetterCaps(element));
> }//while
>
> return out.toString();
> }
>
that's why there's another method called removeAndHump :)
the removeUnderScores does what it says in the javadocs but is badly named
the reason why it was left in was to preserve backwards compatibility.
(i know 'cos i wrote a patch on this issue a few months ago :)
- robert
