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yaqoob
yaqoob

Reputation: 1062

Split URL and Query Strings

I want to get the part of a URL after the last / and before the querystring.

So far I had the last part of the URL, but I wasn't able to remove the querystring from the URL.

The Javascript:

<script type='text/javascript'>
 var url = window.location.href;
 var array = url.split('/');

 var lastsegment = array[array.length-1];
 document.write(lastsegment);
</script>

The structure of the URL is like this:

http://www.example.com/search/People?&results=latest

I only need the People part. How could that be possible within the above Javascript? Or is there any better way to do that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1401

Answers (4)

Danilo Valente
Danilo Valente

Reputation: 11342

Try using window.location.pathname instead of window.location.href. It gets only the text between the server name and the query string (which is "/search/People" in your case):

var last_part = window.location.pathname.split('/').pop();

You can read more about pathname here.

Upvotes: 4

Mudasir Ali
Mudasir Ali

Reputation: 128

your code does the right thing, you could remove query strings by amending it a bit as;

var lastsegment = array[array.length-1];
if(lastsegment.indexOf('?'))
     lastsegment = lastsegment.split('?')[0];

UPDATE: To handle the case if there are no query string embedded at all.

Upvotes: 2

davidkonrad
davidkonrad

Reputation: 85528

If you want to parse an URL from another origin than window.location :

var test = 'http://www.example.com/search/People?&results=latest';

var parts = test.split('/');
lastPart = parts[parts.length-1].split('?')[0];

lastPart is now "People"

Upvotes: 1

Tushar Gupta - curioustushar
Tushar Gupta - curioustushar

Reputation: 57095

Read Window.location

window.location.pathname.split('/').pop();

.pop()

Upvotes: 2

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