Hi all,

I am trying to use NSScanner to change camel cased strings into
underscore delimited strings, e.g featuredListingId to
featured_listing_id

I have worked our how to use NSScanner to achieve this, consider my
implementation (implemented as a NSString category)

- (NSString *) delimiterSeparatedWords
{
        NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:self];

        NSString *prefix = nil;
        NSString *suffix = nil;

        [scanner scanCharactersFromSet:[NSCharacterSet
lowercaseLetterCharacterSet] intoString:&prefix];
        [scanner scanCharactersFromSet:[NSCharacterSet letterCharacterSet]
intoString:&suffix];
        
        NSString *fieldNameString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@_%@",
prefix, [suffix lowercaseString]];
        return fieldNameString;
}

obviously it only addresses the first occurrence of a capital letter.

Can I ask NSScanner to keep looking for multiple occurrences?

Thanks for your time.
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