Slugify a String of Text in Golang

Here is a function which takes an input string and converts it to a “slug”, a string of text suitable for use in an url address

func slugify(text string) string {
   // Convert spaces to hyphens
  text = strings.ReplaceAll(text, " ", "-")

  // Remove non-alphanumeric characters and hyphens 
  // at the beginning and end
  reg := regexp.MustCompile("[^a-zA-Z0-9-]+")
  text = reg.ReplaceAllString(text, "")

  // Convert to lowercase
  text = strings.ToLower(text)

  return text
}

Be aware, though. It’s only a simple thing. I made it as part of a site conversion I was working on. All I wanted out of it was to take a plain text string with no special characters, convert it to lowercase and replace spaces with hyphen.