I have been looking for this for a while, and while I have found many responses for changing a space into a dash (hyphen), I haven't found any that go the other direction.

Initially I have:

var str = "This-is-a-news-item-";

I try to replace it with:

str.replace("-", ' ');

And simply display the result:

alert(str);

Right now, it doesn't do anything, so I'm not sure where to turn. I tried reversing some of the existing ones that replace the space with the dash, and that doesn't work either.

Thanks for the help.

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