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How to split camel case and add hyphen in JavaScript

Altcademy Team wrote on 7 February 2018

You can use the following regex.
var myStr = 'thisIsAString'; myStr.replace(/([a-zA-Z])(?=[A-Z])/g, '$1-').toLowerCase(); // -> "this-is-a-string"

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