RE: [PHP] Converting a string

[snip] Well, you didn't answer the second question, how would you do it? So far I see a pattern: "ignore the lowercase letters at the beginnig and add a space before an uppercase" (this won't apply to all field names, and I hope you're aware of that), so try something like $text = preg_replace('/^[a-z]+\s*/X', '', preg_replace('/(?=[A-Z])/X', ' ', $name) ); Now, a better way, IMHO, would be to use "_" as spaces and write the name of the field as you want it to appear (e.g. "First_Name"), so you just need to $text = str_replace('_', ' ', $name); --pretty much simplier, isn't? And... if you want to add a prefix (such as "ps") then make it configurable, so it can be changed anytime without effort. Last comment: you should think about the question you didn't answer, and that might give you the solution to your problem. [/snip] I was just headed in the wrong direction with preg_split(), and I had it stuck in my head. If I had delimiters, such as underscores, this question would have never come up. I am not in a position to tell the designers that we need them to change their naming conventions in forms at this unfortunately, so I need to work with what we have as efficiently as possible. Thank you for an elegant solution, but I am curious....why would it not work with all field names if they were named using the conventions (studly caps)? I can see a problem perhaps with a field named fooMyURL, it would come out as My U R L. Do you feel as if there are any other gotcha's?