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Shin
Shin

Reputation: 169

jQuery Convert string to url replacing brackets slashes and dash

Can anyone help me with replacing this string into desired url link please?

1080 Center - (previously) Old/New

to

1080-center-previously-old-new

Upvotes: 1

Views: 532

Answers (2)

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 5491

This will solve your single example (regex's shamelessly stolen from Rails' parameterize method:

"1080 Center - (previously)".toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9\-_]+/g, "-").replace(/-{2,}/, "-").replace(/^-|-$/, '');

But it's hard to come up with a generalized solution without more example input and output.

That being said, you'll probably have an easier time if you come up with a precise specification for what you want to accomplish. For instance, at first it looks like the rule might be "Replace all non-word characters with dashes", but that would turn Center - (previously) into center----previously- which is not what you want. On the other hand, you can't just strip out whitespace, as that will lose the separation between 1080 and Center.

Upvotes: 1

Rory McCrossan
Rory McCrossan

Reputation: 337590

To achieve this you can replace any non-word character with a - using a Regular Expression. Try this:

var input = '1080 Center - (previously) Old/New';
var output = input.replace(/\W+/g, '-').toLowerCase();

console.log(output);

Upvotes: 0

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