Replace Spaces In Directory And File Paths With Dashes In Rust

I store the content for my site in plain - text files ^g:neo in my Grimoire ^g:grim . After years of avoiding them, I've started using spaces in the filenames. They're what I see when I search and they're easier to parse with spaces.

The same filenames are used for building the web pages but I *do not** want spaces there. I also don't want the uppercase letters that I also use in the raw filenames.

This is the little function I use to take care of all that for me.

rust

use regex::Regex;

fn scrub_url_path(source: String) -> String {
    let re = Regex::new(r"\s+").unwrap();
    re.replace_all(&source, "-").to_lowercase()
}

A test run looks like this :

rust

fn main() {
    let source = String::from("this Is  123 Some Text");
    let expected = String::from("this-is-123-some-text");
    let result = scrub_url_path(source);
    assert_eq!(expected, result);
}

Features

lowercases all letters
replaces spaces with dashes
replaces multiple spaces with a single dash

It doesn't deal with anything else (like question marks) but I'm not using those. I'll setup for those in the future by clear listing letters and numbers and removing everything else.

Basic, but helpful.

You'll need to add the regex create with :

cli

cargo add regex