Getting a specific part of a URL using Javascript

Question

I have a couple of URL's that I need to obtain a specific part of the last part of the URI

If I have the url www.test.co/index.php/government-printer-sales.html I only need to obtain government from the URL. All url's are in the same structure so if I have www.test.co/index.php/management-fees.html I need to obtain the word management

I tried the following

var str = document.URL.split('/');
 var type = str[5].split('-',1);

which gives me some result, but I'm sure there is a better way. If there's anyway I can obtain this from eiter mootools or just plain javascript

Is that the real URL? If there are only 2 slashes, then why do you access index `5` of the splitted string? — pimvdb, Oct 06 '11 at 07:56

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '11 at 08:03

You could use a regular expression to pull out the string after the last slash and before the first dash:

var regex = /\/([^/\-]+)[^/]*$/;
var matches = regex.exec('www.test.co/index.php/government-printer-sales.html');
var type = matches[1];  // government

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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You can look here and then here and then check this code:

var myString = "www.test.co/index.php/government-printer-sales.html";
var myRegexp = /(www.test.co\/index.php\/)(\w+)-(.)*/g;
var match = myRegexp.exec(myString);
alert(match);

edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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answered Oct 06 '11 at 08:04

madhead

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case nelson · Answer 3 · 2011-10-06T08:12:26.220

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Splice is a great function passing in a negative number as the first argument will create a new array with elements counting from the end of the array.

document.URL
> "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7671441/getting-a-specific-part-of-a-url-using-javascript"

document.URL.split('/').splice(-1)[0].split('-')[0]
> "getting"

This is similar to python's list splicing lst[:-1]

edited Oct 06 '11 at 08:12

answered Oct 06 '11 at 08:05

case nelson

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 06 '11 at 08:14

Try this:

var type = window.location.pathname.match(/index.php\/([^-]+)(?:-)/)[1];

It searches for any characters following index.php/ excluding a hyphen, but followed by a single hyphen and fetches the value in between.

Getting a specific part of a URL using Javascript

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