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beetle
beetle

Reputation: 223

String manipulation - getting value after the last position of a char

How I can get the value after last char(. ; + _ etc.): e.g.

string.name+org.com

I want to get "com". Is there any function in jQuery?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 13766

Answers (8)

Guffa
Guffa

Reputation: 700342

Use lastIndexOf and substr to find the character and get the part of the string after it:

var extension = name.substr(name.lastIndexOf(".") + 1);

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Guffa/K3BWn/

Upvotes: 23

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 626845

A simple and readable approch to get the substring after the last occurrence of a character from a defined set is to split the string with a regular expression containing a character class and then use pop() to get the last element of the resulting array:

The pop() method removes the last element from an array and returns that element.

See a JS demo below:

var s = 'string.name+org.com';
var result = s.split(/[.;+_]/).pop();
console.log(result);

to split at all non-overlapping occurrences of the regex by default.

NOTE: If you need to match ^, ], \ or -, you may escape them and use anywhere inside the character class (e.g. /[\^\-\]\\]/). It is possible to avoid escaping ^ (if you do not put it right after the opening [), - (if it is right after the opening [, right before the closing ], after a valid range, or between a shorthand character class and another symbol): /[-^\]\\]/.

Also, if you need to split with a single char, no regex is necessary:

// Get the substring after the last dot
var result = 'string.name+org.com'.split('.').pop();
console.log(result);

Upvotes: 5

SMPLYJR
SMPLYJR

Reputation: 884

maybe this is too late to consider, this codes works fine for me using jquery

var afterDot = value.substr(value.lastIndexOf('_') + 1);

You could just replate '_' to '.'

var myString = 'asd/f/df/xc/asd/test.jpg'
var parts    = myString.split('/');
var answer   = parts[parts.length - 1];
console.log(answer);

Upvotes: 0

m90
m90

Reputation: 11822

I'll throw in a crazy (i.e. no RegExp) one:

var s = 'string.name+org.com';
var a = s.split('.'); //puts all sub-Strings delimited by . into an Array
var result = a[a.length-1]; //gets the last element of that Array
alert(result);​

EDIT: Since the update of the question is demanding mutiple delimiters to work this is probably not the way to go. Too crazy.....

Upvotes: 1

T.J. Crowder
T.J. Crowder

Reputation: 1074335

Not jQuery, just JavaScript: lastIndexOf and substring would do it (not since the update indicating multiple characters). As would a regular expression with a capture group containing a character class followed by an end-of-string anchor, e.g. /([^.;+_]+)$/ used with RegExp#exec or String#match.

E.g. (live copy | source):

var match = /([^.;+_]+)$/.exec(theStringToTest),
    result = match && match[1];

Upvotes: 4

antonjs
antonjs

Reputation: 14318

You can use RegExp Object.

Try this code:

 "http://stackoverflow.com".replace(/.*\./,"");

Upvotes: 1

Jassi Oberoi
Jassi Oberoi

Reputation: 1424

use javascript function like 

url.substr(url.length - 3);

Upvotes: 0

Fabrizio Calderan
Fabrizio Calderan

Reputation: 123387

var s  = "string.name+org.com",
    lw = s.replace(/^.+[\W]/, '');

console.log(lw) /* com */

this will also work for
string.name+org/com
string.name+org.info

Upvotes: 1

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