From 97bdc8bc7cac7c13e63698da5e06ea8cfcf10600 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chris evett <chris.evett@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:41:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Adding custom helper for regex

---
 template/helpers.go      | 6 ++++++
 template/helpers_test.go | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/template/helpers.go b/template/helpers.go
index 2c810fb..49e91ec 100644
--- a/template/helpers.go
+++ b/template/helpers.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ package template
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"net/url"
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 	"unicode"
@@ -117,3 +118,8 @@ func uppercaseFirst(s string) string {
 
 	return s
 }
+
+func regexReplace(pattern string, input string, replacement string) string {
+	re := regexp.MustCompile(pattern)
+	return re.ReplaceAllString(input, replacement)
+}
diff --git a/template/helpers_test.go b/template/helpers_test.go
index 7dd4cd0..686ee64 100644
--- a/template/helpers_test.go
+++ b/template/helpers_test.go
@@ -90,3 +90,11 @@ func TestUppercaseFirst(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestRegexReplace(t *testing.T) {
+	expected := "hello-my-String-123"
+	actual := regexReplace("(.*?)\\/(.*)", "hello/my-String-123", "$1-$2")
+	if actual != "hello-my-String-123" {
+		t.Errorf("error, expected %s, got %s", expected, actual)
+	}
+}