I would like to check if a string is a camel case or not (boolean). I am inclined to use a regex but any other elegant solution would work. I wrote a simple regex
(?:[A-Z])(?:[a-z])+(?:[A-Z])(?:[a-z])+
Would this be correct? Or am I missing something?
Edit
I would like to capture names in a collection of text documents of the format
McDowell O'Connor T.Kasting
Edit2
I have modified my regex based on the suggestion in the comments
(?:[A-Z])(?:S?)+(?:[A-Z])(?:[a-z])+
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Answer
You could check if a string has both upper and lowercase.
def is_camel_case(s):
return s != s.lower() and s != s.upper() and "_" not in s
tests = [
"camel",
"camelCase",
"CamelCase",
"CAMELCASE",
"camelcase",
"Camelcase",
"Case",
"camel_case",
]
for test in tests:
print(test, is_camel_case(test))
Output:
camel False camelCase True CamelCase True CAMELCASE False camelcase False Camelcase True Case True camel_case False