How to extract a string from url using javascript

Question

I have following string:

<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/ABC"> </a>

How can I extract text (i.e.ABC) from the string?

Possible duplicate of [Extract substring out of a string using Javascript](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5810431/extract-substring-out-of-a-string-using-javascript) — Prabhjot Singh Kainth, Nov 27 '19 at 06:58

Fabien · Answer 1 · 2019-11-27T07:18:28.067

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You can try anchorObject.pathname or anchorObject.href.match(/\/([^/]+)$/)[1] if you just want the last path.
You still need to get the anchorObject from the DOM.

const parser = new DOMParser();
const elm = parser.parseFromString('<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/posts"></a>', 'text/html');
const anchorObject = elm.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];

And voilà.

edited Nov 27 '19 at 07:18

answered Nov 27 '19 at 07:04

Fabien

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Thanks, I'm able to fetch the string document.getElementsByTagName('a')[19].innerHTML; – Bindu Gowda Nov 27 '19 at 07:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 27 '19 at 07:03

If you are not sure of what the length of the variable you're looking for is, you can use this syntax.

let string = '<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/ABC"> </a>';
console.log(string.split('"')[1].split('/')[3]);

If you know what you're looking for ( for Example: ABC ) you can find index of ABC, and splice the string.

let variable = 'ABC'
console.log(string.substr(string.search("ABC"), variable.length))

Breakdown the string until you get the variable.

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