Question

I want to remove a url from a string looking like this:

Guardian #Tech #News: "Hillsborough report: what data journalism can tell us about the files" http://t.co/kplfDhLE

Answer 1

RegEx is a way of dealing with strings, just not my preferred one. If same thing is true for you, then try this:

var text = 'Guardian #Tech #News: ...snipped... http://t.co/kplfDhLE';
text.substring(0, text.indexOf("http"));    // Gives only the text
text.substring(text.indexOf("http"));       // Gives only the URL

If the URL isn’t at the end of the string, then it get’s a little tricky, but still a lot better than killing yourself with regex.