how do I create a page name from the location.pathname url?

Question

I have the following url :

var pagename= location.pathname.split('/').join(':');

gives me

:get:this:url:in:a-nice-format.html

How do I get rid of the first ":"?

Thanks.

Possible duplicate of [Remove first character from a Javascript string](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3923015/remove-first-character-from-a-javascript-string) — Obsidian Age, May 16 '17 at 22:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 10 '20 at 10:27

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pagename = location.pathname.split('/').join(':').substr(1);

edited Dec 10 '20 at 10:27

Ismoil Shifoev

answered May 16 '17 at 22:50

Anna Fohlmeister

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 16 '17 at 22:51

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Hi you can use substrings method. Simply do this.... var pageName2 = pageName.substring(1); I hope this helps.

answered May 16 '17 at 22:51

Samson Iyanda

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '17 at 23:05

I'm not able to comment yet but waned to help anyway. And there's probably an answer somewhere else...

Anyway, try using slice() and passing in a 'begin' argument of 1 to remove the first ':'.

Like this: var pagename= location.pathname.split('/').join(':').slice(1);

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