Re: parse url information
by "Rajnish Bhaskar" <r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk>
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Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:57:25 +0100 |
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"Ball, Steve" <sball(at)providence.org> |
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hwg-languages(at)hwg.org |
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Hi Steve,
> I want to process a url such as /Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/Pagename How
> can I use js to derive /Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/ in other words
> truncate the string to the right of the last slash where the amount of
> slashes in the string will vary. Thanks! Steve
Try something like this:
var aUrl = document.location.href;
aUrl = aUrl.substring(0, aUrl.substring(0, aUrl.length-
1).lastIndexOf('/')+1);
Raj.
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Rajnish Bhaskar
r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk, http://lordofthemoon.com
IT Education Unit, University of Glasgow
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