Question

I’ve been trying to get a JavaScript regex command to turn something like "thisString" into "This String" but the closest I’ve gotten is replacing a letter, resulting in something like "Thi String" or "This tring". Any ideas?

To clarify I can handle the simplicity of capitalizing a letter, I’m just not as strong with RegEx, and splitting "somethingLikeThis" into "something Like This" is where I’m having trouble.

Answer 1

"thisStringIsGood"
    // insert a space before all caps
    .replace(/([A-Z])/g, ' $1')
    // uppercase the first character
    .replace(/^./, function(str){ return str.toUpperCase(); })

displays

This String Is Good

(function() {

  const textbox = document.querySelector('#textbox')
  const result = document.querySelector('#result')
  function split() {
      result.innerText = textbox.value
        // insert a space before all caps
        .replace(/([A-Z])/g, ' $1')
        // uppercase the first character
        .replace(/^./, (str) => str.toUpperCase())
    };

  textbox.addEventListener('input', split);
  split();
}());

#result {
  margin-top: 1em;
  padding: .5em;
  background: #eee;
  white-space: pre;
}

<div>
  Text to split
  <input id="textbox" value="thisStringIsGood" />
</div>

<div id="result"></div>