How can I create a SEO friendly dash-delimited url

Question

Take a string such as:

In C#: How do I add "Quotes" around string in a comma delimited list of strings?

and convert it to:

in-c-how-do-i-add-quotes-around-string-in-a-comma-delimited-list-of-strings

Requirements:

• Separate each word by a dash and remove all punctuation (taking into account not all words are separated by spaces.)
• Function takes in a max length, and gets all tokens below that max length. Example: ToSeoFriendly("hello world hello world", 14) returns "hello-world"
• All words are converted to lower case.

On a separate note, should there be a minimum length?

Answer 1

In a dynamic URL, these IDs are passed via the query string to a script that ... as the delimiting character because most search engines treat the dash as a ... NET: A Developer's Guide to SEO also covers these three additional methods search engine optimization

Answer 2

C#

public string toFriendly(string subject)
{
    subject = subject.Trim().ToLower();
    subject = Regex.Replace(subject, @"\s+", "-");
    subject = Regex.Replace(subject, @"[^A-Za-z0-9_-]", "");
    return subject;
}

Answer 3

Solution in shell:

echo 'In C#: How do I add "Quotes" around string in a comma delimited list of strings?' | \
    tr A-Z a-z | \
    sed 's/[^a-z0-9]\+/-/g;s/^\(.\{1,20\}\).*/\1/'

Answer 4

Solution in Perl:

my $input = 'In C#: How do I add "Quotes" around string in a comma delimited list of strings?';

my $length = 20;
$input =~ s/[^a-z0-9]+/-/gi;
$input =~ s/^(.{1,$length}).*/\L$1/;

print "$input\n";

done.

Answer 5

In python, (if django is installed, even if you are using another framework.)

from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify
slugify("In C#: How do I add "Quotes" around string in a comma delimited list of strings?")

Answer 6

A better version:

function Slugify($string)
{
    return strtolower(trim(preg_replace(array('~[^0-9a-z]~i', '~-+~'), '-', $string), '-'));
}