Use an regular expression to grab part of a string in js/jquery

Question

I have the following string :-

http://myapp.local/myapp/shop/products/admin/ShopProducts%5Bproduct_name%5D//ShopProducts%5BemailNotification%5D//ShopProducts%5Bemail_user%5D//ShopProducts%5Bactive%5D//ShopProducts%5Binstant_win%5D//ShopProducts%5Bmulti_buy%5D//ShopProducts%5Bprice%5D//ShopProducts%5Bquantity%5D//ShopProducts_page/2/ajax/shopproducts-grid

I only want to grab the last section as so on.. not this is a part of pager (needs some weird custom hack) and the page number in this case is 2 but could 2,3,4, 500...

ShopProducts_page/2/ajax/shopproducts-grid

What is the easiest way to do this using vanilla js or jquery or a structured way to grab the parts into some of an array that I'll be able to manipulate?

Can you post some examples of things you have tried already? — robbrit
– robbrit, Commented Sep 5, 2014 at 15:26
Dose /ShopProducts_page\/[0-9]+\/ajax\/shopproducts\-grid/ make sense? — chestnut
– chestnut, Commented Sep 5, 2014 at 15:28

RevanProdigalKnight · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-05 15:29:55Z

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If there will always be double forward-slashes // in the path, you can simply do this:

//Where string is already defined to be the path
var sections = string.split('//');
var lastSection = sections[sections.length-1];

answered Sep 5, 2014 at 15:29

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andrew Over a year ago

Exactly what I was thinking, and of course the string is window.location.pathname

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