Creating slugs from headlines?

Question

I have everything to create bullets from names, but there is one problem. My RegEx replaces spaces with a hyphen. But when the user types "Hi there there" (a few spaces), the slug ends up as "Hi ----- there". When really it should be "Hi there."

Should I create a regular expression so that it replaces only space when there is a character on both sides?

Or is there an easier way to do this?

Answer 1

I use this:

yourslug.replace(/\W+/g, '-')

This replaces all occurrences of one or more non-alphanumeric characters of the same dash.

Answer 2

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s/\s+/-/g

Answer 3

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replace /-{2,}/ by "-"

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Answer 4

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http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/

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Answer 5

[\s]+ '-', [^\w-] ''

Answer 6

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function hyphenSpace(s){
    s= (s.trim)? s.trim(): s.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,'');
    return s.split(/\s+/).join('-');
}