Nodejs String Slugify slugify()

Method Source Code

/**//w  w w . j av a2 s  .  c o  m
 * Taken from https://gist.github.com/mathewbyrne/1280286
 *
 * @returns {string}
 */
String.prototype.slugify = function() {
  return this.toString().toLowerCase()
    .replace(/\s+/g, '-')           // Replace spaces with -
    .replace(/[^\w\-]+/g, '')       // Remove all non-word chars
    .replace(/\-\-+/g, '-')         // Replace multiple - with single -
    .replace(/^-+/, '')             // Trim - from start of text
    .replace(/-+$/, '');            // Trim - from end of text
};

Related

1. slug()

   String.prototype.slug=function(){
      return this.toLowerCase().replace(/\s/g,'-').replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g,'-').replace(/-{2,}/g,'-').replace(/^-/,'').replace(/-$/,'');
   

2. slug(max)

   import $removeDiacritics from './internal/removeDiacritics';
   String.prototype.slug = function(max) {
       max = max || 60;
       var self = $removeDiacritics(this.trim().toLowerCase());
       var b = '';
       var length = self.length;
       for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
           var c = self[i];
           var code = self.charCodeAt(i);
   ...
   

3. slugify()

   String.prototype.slugify = function() {
       var string = this.replace(/[^\w\s-]/g, '').trim().toLowerCase();
       return string.replace(/[_\s]+/g, '_');
   };
   

4. slugify()

   String.prototype.slugify = function ()
     return this.toLowerCase()
       .replace(/\s+/g, '-')           
       .replace(/[^\w\-]+/g, '')       
       .replace(/\-\-+/g, '-')         
       .replace(/^-+/, '')             
       .replace(/-+$/, '');            
   

5. slugify()

   String.prototype.slugify = function () {
       return this.trim().replace(/\s+/g, '-');
   };