Javascript replace

Question

Hello struggling here guys..

Is it possible to string replace anything between the the first forward slashes with "" but keep the rest?

e.g. var would be

string "/anything-here-this-needs-to-be-replaced123/but-keep-this";

would end up like this

string "/but-keep-this";

Hope that made sence

Answer 1

Like this:

var string = "/anything-here-this-needs-to-be-replaced123/but-keep-this";
string = string.substring(string.indexOf('/', 1));

You can view a demo here to play with, the .indexOf() method takes an optional second argument, saying where to start the search, just use that with .substring() here.

If you want to remove all leading slashes (unclear from the example), change it up a bit to .lastIndexOf() without a start argument, like this:

var string = "/anything-here-this-needs-to-be-replaced123/but-keep-this";
string = string.substring(string.lastIndexOf('/'));

You can play with that here, the effect is the same for the example, but would be different in the case of more slashes.

Answer 2

You can simply split it by /

var str = "/anything-here-this-needs-to-be-replaced123/but-keep-this";
var myarray = str.split('/');
alert('/' . myarray[2]);

Answer 3

var s = "/anything-here-this-needs-to-be-replaced123/but-keep-this";

pos = s.lastIndexOf("/");

var s2 = s.substring(pos);

alert(s2);

Answer 4

you can also use regular expressions in javascript: http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html