How to implement wildcards for window.location.pathname

Question

I have the following code and I would like to make the function work on any URL containing "blog" instead of a specific URL. Please help me with the correct syntax, thanks.

window.setTimeout(function() {
  if (window.location.pathname != '/home/legal-documentation' &&
    window.location.pathname != '/home/blog/australian-business-news'
  ) {
    erOpenLoginRegisterbox(jQuery);
  }
  return false;
}, 1000);

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 01 '18 at 20:51

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What you are looking for is a Regular Expression. These are used to match a certain combination of characters, in your case, you can use String.prototype.match() in order to find Strings containing the word "blog" using this RegEx:

/blog/gi

or, in your function:

window.setTimeout(function() {
    if (window.location.pathname.match(/blog/gi)) {
        erOpenLoginRegisterbox(jQuery);
    }
    return false;
}, 1000);

answered Jul 01 '18 at 20:51

Luca Kiebel

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 01 '22 at 23:33

I think you are looking for String.prototype.indexOf(). It will return -1 if it does not find the string it is passed, so testing for -1 seems to correlate with your approach. Furthermore, to be on the safe side, in case you also want to exclude blog in a case-insensitive manner (in other words, you want to test for Blog, blog, BLOG, etc.), I refer to pathname as though it were uppercase (String.prototype.toUpperCase()), and then compare it to 'BLOG'

window.setTimeout(function() {
    if (window.location.pathname.toUpperCase().indexOf('BLOG') === -1) {
        erOpenLoginRegisterbox(jQuery);
    }
    return false;
}, 1000);

How to implement wildcards for window.location.pathname

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