.. _auto_string_inflector:

*FORMAT A STRING BASED ON INFLECTOR*
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Applies an Inflector-based string transformation to a scalar value, supporting common casing and grammatical conversions such as camelCase, humanize, pluralize, and singularize. Use this worker wherever a workflow needs to normalize or reformat a string label, identifier, or word before passing it downstream.

When to use
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Classification: **process**.

Tagged: ``camelize``, ``capitalize``, ``format``, ``humanize``, ``inflector``, ``lowercase``, ``pluralize``, ``singularize``.

Inputs
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   * - Label
     - ID
     - Type
     - Default
     - Required
     - Description
   * - Value To Be Formatted
     - valuetobeformatted
     - scalar
     - —
     - ✓
     - The raw scalar string value to be transformed; provide any word, phrase, or identifier that needs reformatting.
   * - Type
     - type
     - string
     - %s
     - 
     - The Inflector transformation to apply; choose one of: camelize (UpperCamelCase), uppercase, lowercase, humanize (space-separated human-readable), pluralize, capitalize (first letter upper), or singularize — defaults to pass-through ('%s') if left unset.

Outputs
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   * - Label
     - ID
     - Type
     - Description
   * - string_inflector_output_1
     - string_inflector_output_1
     - scalar
     - The transformed scalar string result after the selected Inflector operation has been applied to the input value.

Disciplines
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- data.dataset.transform

Runnable example
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A runnable example is registered for this worker. Open the example workflow on the d3VIEW canvas: `/api/workflow/example?id=string_inflector <https://www.d3view.com/api/workflow/example?id=string_inflector>`_

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