Question

For some time I’ve been trying to understand regular expressions in JavaScript, but it is extremely complicated. You could tell me how do I redeem separately each of the values ​​from the URL below using regular expressions?

URL

/first/middle/last

Return

var first = "first"
var middle = "middle"
var last = "last"

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think you should use split() for this kind of thing, but if you really like to use regexp you could do this:

 var url = "/first/middle/last";
 var reg = /\/(.*)\/(.*)\/(.*)/;
 var matches = reg.exec(url); 
 // matches[0] == first
 // matches[1] == middle
 // matches[2] == last