JS: Sanitize JSON data to conform to

sanitizeJsonPropertyNames.js

/** Make property names conform to javascript property name rules.
  * One use case of this is with Kendo UI's Grid, when the column templates are dynamically generated from JSON
  */
sanitizeJsonPropertyNames(arr) {
  let _return = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    for (var property in arr[i]) {
      //sanitize any property names
      let propertyName = property.toString();
      propertyName = propertyName.replace(/[\-_]+/g, '_');
      propertyName = propertyName.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9]+/g, '');
      if (!propertyName[0].match(/[A-Za-z_]/))
          propertyName = '_' + propertyName;

      _return[i][propertyName] = arr[i][property];
    }
  }
  return _return;
}