From 7e5861ec229da008a711f1a544056a417b0ed0b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mose=20M=C3=BCller?= <mosemueller@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:04:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: adding utils module (string manipulation function)

---
 frontend/src/utils/stringUtils.ts | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 frontend/src/utils/stringUtils.ts

diff --git a/frontend/src/utils/stringUtils.ts b/frontend/src/utils/stringUtils.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..892341d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/utils/stringUtils.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+export function getIdFromFullAccessPath(fullAccessPath: string) {
+  // Replace '].' with a single dash
+  let id = fullAccessPath.replace(/\]\./g, '-');
+
+  // Replace any character that is not a word character or underscore with a dash
+  id = id.replace(/[^\w_]+/g, '-');
+
+  // Remove any trailing dashes
+  id = id.replace(/-+$/, '');
+
+  return id;
+}