Question

I make a script. That get the href of the element. But i want only the last part of this url. I make this:

var newURL = $(".list-portfolio a").attr("href");
    pathArray = newURL.split( '/' ),
        secondLevelLocation = pathArray[0];

    var newPathname = "";
    for ( i = 3; i < pathArray.length; i++ ) {  
      newPathname += "/";
      newPathname += pathArray[i];
    }

this results in this /portfolio/ruimzicht.html Thats almost good. How can i remove the first /.

Do you have any tips to improve the code?

Answer 1

Why not use an array function?

var pathArray = ["portfolio", "ruimzicht.html"];

// build a string by inserting a forward slash between all elements
pathArray.join("/");

// results in: portfolio/ruimzicht.html

If you’re just interested in the last part anyway, you could shrink this into a one liner:

url.split("/").pop(); // yields "ruimzicht.html"