Parsing a URL (as a string) and splicing each sub-page into an array

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Given the url (string) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask, how could I split it up into an array that contains data like the following: questions,ask. How would I make this work for an infinite amount of slashes?

The way I am thinking of doing it would be to use URL.parse in Node.JS and then use STRING.split('/') to separate the string into an array.

Would this be the correct way to do it? Is there a quicker way?

URL.parse does the dirty work for you (getting the path), leaving you the easy part. I'd say splitting by / is definitely a fine way to go to get each "sub-page into an array". You could of course use a regular expression, but I feel like it's more straightforward/readable with the split — Ian
– Ian, Commented Mar 12, 2014 at 22:13

Tim Brown · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-12 22:16:32Z

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To the best of my knowledge, that is the best way to do it. Alternatively you could just ignore the first parts of the split:

URL_STRING.split('/').slice(3)

answered Mar 12, 2014 at 22:16

Tim Brown

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