String to Markdown Id

Convert string to GitLab Flavored Markdown Header ID [1]

Quickstart

String to Markdown Id is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip.

$ pip install string_to_markdown_id

After installing String to Markdown Id you can use it like any other Python module.

Here is a simple example:

from string_to_markdown_id import convertToMarkdownId

testQueries = [
    r"""(This) --- --v - " "" ' ' has 2.5, 😀, 한글, :thumbsup:,       , \n, \r, \t, \f, \u, \a, \x, \\t""",
    "this-------v-------has-25--한글-thumbsup--n-r-t-f-u-a-x-t",
]
expected = [
    "this-v-has-25-한글-thumbsup-n-r-t-f-u-a-x-t",
    "this-v-has-25-한글-thumbsup-n-r-t-f-u-a-x-t-1",
]
expectedHyphenIgnore = [
    "this-------v-------has-25--한글-thumbsup--n-r-t-f-u-a-x-t",
    "this-------v-------has-25--한글-thumbsup--n-r-t-f-u-a-x-t-1",
]
print(f"\nGiven queries:\n{testQueries}\n")

gens = convertToMarkdownId(testQueries)
print(f"Generated IDs:\n{gens}\n")

print(f"Expected IDs:\n{expected}\n")

gens = convertToMarkdownId(testQueries, ignore_multi_hyphens=True)
print(f"Generated IDs (Hyphen Ignored):\n{gens}\n")

print(f"Expected IDs (Hyphen Ignored):\n{expectedHyphenIgnore}\n")

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