Discussion on: Collab Lab Week 4 - Tuesday

[eggorybarnes]

You could try something like,

input.replace(/\s+\s/g, " ")

to replace all multiple spaces with a single space.

[Nikema]

I ended up using this afterall!

const normalizeName = name => {
  return name
    .replace(/[,.;:!-?]/g, '')
    .toLowerCase()
    .replace(/\s+\s/g, ' ')
    .trim();
};

[Nikema]

Thank you. We talked in slack about the acceptance criteria for this story and I'm going to change my approach. Instead of limiting to letters only, I'll exclude the punctuation. The product owner let me know that we need to be able to accept accented letters and numbers.