Why is my regex not replacing my string in jQuery?

Question

I'm trying to get rid of the protocol and domain from a URL in jQuery with .replace() and regex, but it leaves the string exactly the same no matter what.

var selectedDocumentUrl = "http://mysite.test.com/files/somefile.pdf";
var assetUrl = selectedDocumentUrl.replace('/http://[^\/]+/g', '');

Here is a jsfiddle of the code

Arun P Johny · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-07 17:57:34Z

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You have to pass a regular expression to replace() not a string literal

var assetUrl = selectedDocumentUrl.replace(/http:\/\/[^\/]+/g, '');

Demo: Fiddle

answered Mar 7, 2014 at 17:57

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CR47 Over a year ago

Thanks, this worked. Thank you for also pointing out in the code that I had to escape the slashes in the protocol.

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