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String to slug in JS (wordpress sanitize_title)
var string_to_slug = function (str)
{
str = str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ''); // trim
str = str.toLowerCase();
// remove accents, swap ñ for n, etc
var from = "àáäâèéëêìíïîòóöôùúüûñçěščřžýúůďťň·/_,:;";
var to = "aaaaeeeeiiiioooouuuuncescrzyuudtn------";
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('.', '-') // replace a dot by a dash
.replace(/[^a-z0-9 -]/g, '') // remove invalid chars
.replace(/\s+/g, '-') // collapse whitespace and replace by a dash
.replace(/-+/g, '-') // collapse dashes
.replace( /\//g, '' ); // collapse all forward-slashes
return str;
}
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Awesome, thank you so much!

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