Run results for: Trim leading and trailing slash (regex vs split filter)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

simple regex

1.3M/s

regex with no lookbehind

1.3M/s

split + filter + join

790K/s

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Script Preparation code:

var s = '//the//////quick/brown///////////fox/jumps/over//the/lazy/dog////';

Tests:

simple regex
s.replace(/\/{2,}/g, "/").replace(/(^\/+|\/+$)/g, "");
regex with no lookbehind
s.replace(/\/{2,}/g, "/").replace(/(^\/+|(?<!\/)\/+$)/g, "");
split + filter + join
s.split("/").filter(Boolean).join("/");