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user13028341
user13028341

Reputation:

Regular expression match the begining and the end without the middle

How could I merge both those regular expressions? This is interesting because it would allow to match the beginning of a string and the end without touching the content in the middle.

function cleanURL(url) {
    url = url.replace(/^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|ww\d\.|w\d\d\.)?/, '')
    url = url.replace(/(\/.*)/, '')
    return url
}

console.log(cleanURL('https://hello-world.example.tld/yello-blue/green'))

Result: hello-world.example.tld

Upvotes: 0

Views: 38

Answers (1)

Dave Newton
Dave Newton

Reputation: 160170

Rather than trying to use regex to tease out parts of URLs just use the URL class:

new URL("https://hello-world.example.tld/yello-blue/green").hostname

That doesn't mean it can't be done with a regex, you just need to look for whatever is between // and /.

All this said, I'm not sure what your actual intent is, because there's a bunch of shenanigans with www etc. The URL approach won't filter, it'll just return the hostname.

Upvotes: 1

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