jQuery/JS extract a specific string from URL

Question

I have the following URL:

I only need to extract Rome from the url. So far I have managed to do this:

var citySearch = $.cookie('recentSearch');
citySearch.match(/_keywords=(.+)/)[1]

where citySearch the url.

This only returns "Rome%2C+Italy&country=Italy&city=Rome&date_from=2016-07-02&date_to=2016-07-05 "

Do you want `Rome` because it's the first part of the String, or because that's the value of the `city` GET variable? — David Thomas, Jul 01 '16 at 13:09

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '16 at 13:10

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your regex is matching too much, it should work with:

var citySearch = $.cookie('recentSearch');
citySearch.match(/_keywords=(.+?)&/)[1]

This would give you "Rome%2C+Italy" which is the keyword parameter.

hope this helps

answered Jul 01 '16 at 13:10

Martin Ackermann

I am only looking for "Rome" – Aessandro Jul 01 '16 at 13:14
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meaning you just want to know if rome is included? in this case you could just 'citySearch.indexOf('Rome') >= 0'. If this is not the case, please describe your use case more specific... – Martin Ackermann Jul 01 '16 at 13:16

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