Question

I need to reformat a string using jQuery or vanilla JavaScript

Let’s say we have "Sonic Free Games".

I want to convert it to "sonic-free-games".

So whitespaces should be replaced by dashes and all letters converted to small letters.

Any help on this please?

Answer 1

Just use the String replace and toLowerCase methods, for example:

var str = "Sonic Free Games";
str = str.replace(/\s+/g, '-').toLowerCase();
console.log(str); // "sonic-free-games"

Notice the g flag on the RegExp, it will make the replacement globally within the string, if it’s not used, only the first occurrence will be replaced, and also, that RegExp will match one or more white-space characters.