Convert String To camelCase from TitleCase C#

I have a string that I converted to a TextInfo.ToTitleCase and removed the underscores and joined the string together. Now I need to change the first and only the first character in the string to lower case and for some reason, I can not figure out how to accomplish it. Thanks in advance for the help.

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string functionName = "zebulans_nightmare";
        TextInfo txtInfo = new CultureInfo("en-us", false).TextInfo;
        functionName = txtInfo.ToTitleCase(functionName).Replace('_', ' ').Replace(" ", String.Empty);
        Console.Out.WriteLine(functionName);
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

Results: ZebulansNightmare

Desired Results: zebulansNightmare

UPDATE:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string functionName = "zebulans_nightmare";
        TextInfo txtInfo = new CultureInfo("en-us", false).TextInfo;
        functionName = txtInfo.ToTitleCase(functionName).Replace("_", string.Empty).Replace(" ", string.Empty);
        functionName = $"{functionName.First().ToString().ToLowerInvariant()}{functionName.Substring(1)}";
        Console.Out.WriteLine(functionName);
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

Produces the desired output


You just need to lower the first char in the array. See this answer

Char.ToLowerInvariant(name[0]) + name.Substring(1)

As a side note, seeing as you are removing spaces you can replace the underscore with an empty string.

.Replace("_", string.Empty)

Implemented Bronumski's answer in an extension method (without replacing underscores).

 public static class StringExtension
 {
     public static string ToCamelCase(this string str)
     {                    
         if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(str) && str.Length > 1)
         {
             return char.ToLowerInvariant(str[0]) + str.Substring(1);
         }
         return str;
     }
 }

 //Or

 public static class StringExtension
 {
     public static string ToCamelCase(this string str) =>
         string.IsNullOrEmpty(str) || str.Length < 2
         ? str
         : char.ToLowerInvariant(str[0]) + str.Substring(1);
 }

and to use it:

string input = "ZebulansNightmare";
string output = input.ToCamelCase();

If you're using .NET Core 3 or .NET 5, you can call:

System.Text.Json.JsonNamingPolicy.CamelCase.ConvertName(someString)

Then you'll definitely get the same results as ASP.NET's own JSON serializer.


Here is my code, in case it is useful to anyone

    // This converts to camel case
    // Location_ID => locationId, and testLEFTSide => testLeftSide

    static string CamelCase(string s)
    {
        var x = s.Replace("_", "");
        if (x.Length == 0) return "null";
        x = Regex.Replace(x, "([A-Z])([A-Z]+)($|[A-Z])",
            m => m.Groups[1].Value + m.Groups[2].Value.ToLower() + m.Groups[3].Value);
        return char.ToLower(x[0]) + x.Substring(1);
    }

If you prefer Pascal-case use:

    static string PascalCase(string s)
    {
        var x = CamelCase(s);
        return char.ToUpper(x[0]) + x.Substring(1);
    }