Passed but would like feedback

JavaScript
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I finally passed this one after a lot of fiddling with the second regex. When I finish a challenge, I try to look at all of the solutions listed and learn how I could have made my function more simple and streamlined. I understand how the final solution in the list works, but I am struggling with understanding "$1 $2" in the first and second solutions. I did some researching and it seems like $1 is telling it to put a space before each encountered upper case character, but how? I would be incredibly grateful if someone could break down for me what is happening.

**Solution 2 code **

function spinalCase(str) {
  // Replace low-upper case to low-space-uppercase
  str = str.replace(/([a-z])([A-Z])/g, "$1 $2");
  // Split on whitespace and underscores and join with dash
  return str
    .toLowerCase()
    .split(/(?:_| )+/)
    .join("-");
}

// test here
spinalCase("This Is Spinal Tap");

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Challenge: Spinal Tap Case

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the $1 refers to the first capture group in the regex pattern, the $2 to the second capture group
"$1 $2" says to put what was captured by the two groups in the end string separated by a space

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okay so any lowercase character followed by any uppercase character will be separated by a space?

4

yes, the regex match a lower case character followed by an upper case character, and the capture groups say what is referenced with the number

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