Question

EDIT: I probably should have mentioned that this is for a Backbone.js route. Splitting it is not an option.

With the following string:

!/example/c/0/0/0/0

I am trying to use “match()” to extract the values between the slashes. My issue is that the last item(“/0”) may not always be in the string. This is what I currently have:

'!/example/c/0/0/0/0'.match(/^!(\/[A-z0-9\-_]+|)\/c\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+/)

This returns an array with ‘example’, ‘0’, ‘0’, ‘0’ if example is present and ”, ‘0’, ‘0’, ‘0’ if example is not present… So in the end the result I would like to see is:

'example', '0', '0', '0', ''

when the last item isn’t present or:

'example', '0', '0', '0', '0'

when it is present. So basically it’s the slash before the last item that’s getting me! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Prefer splitting because you know your delimiter, this will be easier !

var toSplit = "!/example/c/0/0/0/0";
var splitted = toSplit.split('/');