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Create slug from string in Javascript
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function string_to_slug (str) { | |
str = str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); // trim | |
str = str.toLowerCase(); | |
// remove accents, swap ñ for n, etc | |
var from = "àáäâèéëêìíïîòóöôùúüûñç·/_,:;"; | |
var to = "aaaaeeeeiiiioooouuuunc------"; | |
for (var i=0, l=from.length ; i<l ; i++) { | |
str = str.replace(new RegExp(from.charAt(i), 'g'), to.charAt(i)); | |
} | |
str = str.replace(/[^a-z0-9 -]/g, '') // remove invalid chars | |
.replace(/\s+/g, '-') // collapse whitespace and replace by - | |
.replace(/-+/g, '-'); // collapse dashes | |
return str; | |
} |
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