/[HELP!]/ regxp replace uppercase/lowercase

[brendan]

Hi,
I need to get replace all the uppercase characters in a string with a
lowercase character and a '-'
__ie __________________________________________________
'backgroundColor' becomes 'background-color'
'borderWidth' becomes 'border-width';
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in PHP strtolower(ereg_replace("[A-Z]", "-\\0" , $var)); works
but obviously I'm not using php
any help much appreciated
cheers
brendan.

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

I need to get replace all the uppercase characters in a string with a
lowercase character and a '-'

in PHP strtolower(ereg_replace("[A-Z]", "-\\0" , $var)); works
but obviously I'm not using php
any help much appreciated

javascript regular expressions are closer to the ones in Perl.
The closest Javascript to your PHP example would be:

var newString = oldString.replace(/[A-Z]/g,"-$&").toLowerCase();

A more exotic method (just for the fun of it) is:

var newString = oldString.replace(/[A-Z]/g,function(s){
return "-"+s.toLowerCase();
});

Both work in Netscape 4, IE6, Opera 7, and Mozilla FB 0.6.
The latter doesn't work in Netscape 3, Opera 6 or IE 5 (or earlier).

/L

 

[brendan]

I need to get replace all the uppercase characters in a string with a
lowercase character and a '-'

in PHP strtolower(ereg_replace("[A-Z]", "-\\0" , $var)); works
but obviously I'm not using php
any help much appreciated

javascript regular expressions are closer to the ones in Perl.
The closest Javascript to your PHP example would be:

var newString = oldString.replace(/[A-Z]/g,"-$&").toLowerCase();

A more exotic method (just for the fun of it) is:

var newString = oldString.replace(/[A-Z]/g,function(s){
return "-"+s.toLowerCase();
});

Both work in Netscape 4, IE6, Opera 7, and Mozilla FB 0.6.
The latter doesn't work in Netscape 3, Opera 6 or IE 5 (or earlier).

/L

Brilliant!
This workds perfectly thankyou so much.
b.