Javascript/jQuery: Split camelcase string and add hyphen rather than space

Question

I would imagine this is a multiple part situation with regex, but how would you split a camelcase string at the capital letters turning them in to lowercase letters, and the

Answer 1

Try the following:

var token = document.getElementsByTagName('strong')[0].innerHTML,
    replaced = token.replace(/[a-z][A-Z]/g, function(str, offset) {
       return str[0] + '-' + str[1].toLowerCase();
    });

alert(replaced);

Example - http://jsfiddle.net/7DV6A/2/

Documentation for the string replace function:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace