Question

Im trying to get the last string from a URL for example…

http://www.mywebsite/blog/this-post

I want to use jQuery to get ‘this-post’
Ive the following…

$('img.gigthumb').each(function(){
    var foo = $(this).parent().attr('href').split('/');
    $(this).attr('src','/lic/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/'+foo[1]+'.jpg');
})

only it doesn’t work and I presume thats because I have multiple ‘/’ within the URL, any idea how to target just the last?

Hope this makes sense!

Answer 1

This is precisely what .pop() is made for:

$('img.gigthumb').each(function(){
    var foo = $(this).parent().attr('href').split('/').pop();
    $(this).attr('src','/lic/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/' + foo + '.jpg');
});