JavaScript: Convert CamelCase to Dashes and vice-versa

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My colleague Satyam shared a nice piece of JavaScript code that converts a camelcase to dashes and dashes to Camelcase.

For eg: if the string has a camelcase in it - like ‘viceVersa’, the result expected is ‘vice-Versa’. Similarly if a string has a dash in it, like ‘dot-net’, the result expected is ‘dotNet’. Let’s see the piece of code to make this possible:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
   function camelToDash(str) {
      return str.replace(/\W+/g, '-')
                .replace(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/g, '$1-$2');
   }

   function dashToCamel(str) {
         return str.replace(/\W+(.)/g, function (x, chr) {
                          return chr.toUpperCase();
         })
   }

   var str1 = "devCurry"; 
   str1 = camelToDash(str1);
   var str2 = "dev-curry";
   str2 = dashToCamel(str2);
   alert(str1 + " " + str2);

</script>

Let’s see some important bits of the code shown above.

The /\W+/ pattern matches one or more of any of A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and the underscore character. The "g" (global) flag specifies that the search should find all occurrences of the pattern. The $1,$2,… property represents parenthesized substring matches.

Run the code and you should see the following output



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Suprotim Agarwal, Developer Technologies MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) is the founder and contributor for DevCurry, DotNetCurry and SQLServerCurry. He is the Chief Editor of a Developer Magazine called DNC Magazine. He has also authored two Books - 51 Recipes using jQuery with ASP.NET Controls. and The Absolutely Awesome jQuery CookBook.

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