// Add additional methods to the String prototype
  Object.extend(String.prototype, {
      // A new Strip Tags function that removes all HTML tags from the string
      stripTags: function() {
          return this.replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '');
      },
  
      // Converts a string to an array of characters
      toArray: function() {
          return this.split('');
      },
  
      // Converts "foo-bar" text to "fooBar" 'camel' text
      camelize: function() {
          // Break up the string on dashes
          var oStringList = this.split('-');
  
          // Return early if there are no dashes
          if (oStringList.length == 1)
              return oStringList[0];
  
          // Optionally camelize the start of the string
          var camelizedString = this.indexOf('-') == 0
              ? oStringList[0].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + oStringList[0].substring(1)
              : oStringList[0];
  
          // Capitalize each subsequent portion
          for (var i = 1, len = oStringList.length; i < len; i++) {
              var s = oStringList[i];
              camelizedString += s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
          }
  
          // and return the modified string
          return camelizedString;
      }
  });
  
  // An example of the stripTags() method
  // You can see that it removes all the HTML from the string
  // and leaves us with a clean text-only string
  "<b><i>Hello</i>, world!".stripTags() == "Hello, world!"
  
  // An example of toArray() method
  // We get the fourth character in the string
  "abcdefg".toArray()[3] == "d"
  
  // An example of the camelize() method
  // It converts the old string to the new format.
  "background-color".camelize() == "backgroundColor"