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dashcase helper

Tom Santiago
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Converts a string into dashcase by replacing spaces, underscores, and other non-word characters with hyphens (-). Use it when you need consistent, URL-friendly or identifier-friendly formatting.

Usage

{{dashcase value}}

  • value (required): input string

Examples

  1. Convert a product name to dashcase

    {{dashcase record.product.name}}

    Input:

    {
  "record": {
    "product": {
      "name": "a-b-c d_e"
    }
  }
}

    Output:

    a-b-c-d-e

  2. Convert a descriptive field

    {{dashcase record.category}}

    Input:

    {
  "record": {
    "category": "New Product Launch 2025"
  }
}

    Output:

    new-product-launch-2025

  3. Split case-boundary

    {{dashcase record.camel}}

    Input

     { "record": { "camel": "getUserProfile" } }

    Output

    get-user-profile

Tip

  • All separators are normalized into a single -.

  • Useful for generating slugs, file names, or identifiers in APIs and URLs.

  • Multiple non-word characters in a row are collapsed into a single dash.

  • Inserts hyphens at camel/Pascal case boundaries and lowercases the final string.

  • Collapses multiple separators to a single hyphen and trims leading/trailing hyphens (result may be empty for inputs made only of separators).

  • Digits are preserved and participate in tokenization (e.g., "version-2_1-final" → version-2-1-final or per your tests, version-2-final when there’s spacing).

  • Non-string inputs (datatypes such as number or boolean) are converted to strings before processing. Arrays of primitive types (like strings or numbers) are converted into a comma-separated string before processing. If inputs are objects or object arrays, the output will be unusable.