Question

i have a url that will be consistent in this format:

http://www.name.com/heart/game/2012/topics/SOMETHINGHERE.html

I need to grab the ‘SOMETHINGHERE’ after topics/ and use that as a variable. I can get the current url:

var currentUrl = $(location).attr('href');

but not sure how to target and get just “SOMETHINGHERE” part?

Answer 1

Split the url into parts based on the slashes and then remove the .html from the end of the last part of the url:

var currentUrl = $(location).attr('href');
var urlParts = currentUrl.split( "/" );

var something = urlParts[urlParts.length-1].substr( 0, urlParts[urlParts.length-1].lastIndexOf( ".html" ) );