Splitting occurence of string and getting specific substring javascript

Question

I have the following string /products/id/edit'

i want to get the substring products using javascript but i am not sure how to do it? Any pointers will be great. Thanks

sorak · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-27 04:00:48Z

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String objects have a .split() method:

'/products/id/edit'.split('/')

Which outputs a four member array; one for each string around the slashes:

["", "products", "id", "edit"]

Does that accomplish what you're hoping for?

answered Jan 27, 2018 at 3:50

sorak

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Thanks for trying to help. I need to figure out how to use that snippet tool, but for now I can just be more verbose.

press Ctrl+M in the answering window and use it

Keeps showing a script error for simple and perfectly valid JS