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what is a shorter way to do this (better RegEx ?)
i feel like i used way too many variables when i could have somehow used 2

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function spinalCase(str) {
  // "It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever."
  // --David St. Hubbins
  // create regex to check spaces or underlines against.
  var a = /\s_/g;
  //insert spaces before capital letters that are at word boundries, meaning not adding extra spaces before a word that already has one, or replacing letters with spaces. and then trim off spaces from before or after string
 var b = str.replace(/\B([A-Z])/g, " $1").trim();
  /*the '$1' , in a replace method , refers to the REPLACEMENT PATERN. as the MDN documentation says
  $n	Where n is a positive integer less than 100, inserts the nth parenthesized submatch string, provided the first argument was a RegExp object. Note that this is 1-indexed.
  */
  //turn string into lower case letters
  var c = b.replace(/_/g,"").toLowerCase();
 // call return statement that replaces regex in variable 'a' with dashes
return c.replace(/\s/g,'-');
}

spinalCase('The_Andy_Griffith_Show');

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Link to the challenge:

isn’t chaining replace functions resource consuming?

true, i was asking more if it could be shortened to two functions