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Re: Regular expression question

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Date Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:33:06 +0200
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cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com> writes:

> First thing, I'm a regular expression newbie.... somewhat anyways...
> I would like to recognize the difference between this url:
> http://quaaoutlodge.com/site/the-lodge/our-history.html
> and that url:
> http://quaaoutlodge.com/site/the-lodge.html
> and at the same time extract the document name (our-history or the-
> lodge) and the directory name if present (the-lodge).
> I got stuck at how rto rcognize the second directory instead of the
> first (the-lodge/ instead of site/) with "\b\/[a-z]+\/" how do i get
> the second one only?

When you think a RegExp might solve your problem - stop for a moment
and think whether there is also a simpler solution :)

In this case, I'd just do:

  function name(url) {
    var name_end = url.lastIndexOf(".");
    var name_start = url.lastIndexOf("/", name_end) + 1;
    return url.substr(name_start, name_end);
  }

If your URLs aren't always that simple, you'd need to adapt a RegExp too.
/L
-- 
Lasse Reichstein Holst Nielsen
 'Javascript frameworks is a disruptive technology'
  

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Regular expression question cerr <ron.eggler@gmail.com> - 2011-10-25 21:43 -0700
  Re: Regular expression question Mike Duffy <never@you.mind.com> - 2011-10-26 12:11 +0000
  Re: Regular expression question Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-10-26 16:54 +0000
  Re: Regular expression question Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <lrn.unread@gmail.com> - 2011-10-26 19:33 +0200
    Re: Regular expression question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-26 23:40 +0200
      Re: Regular expression question Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-27 17:30 -0700
        Re: Regular expression question Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-27 17:39 -0700
          Re: Regular expression question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-28 03:50 +0200
            Re: Regular expression question Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-28 08:46 -0700
            Re: Regular expression question Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <lrn.unread@gmail.com> - 2011-10-28 18:50 +0200
              Re: Regular expression question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-28 19:50 +0200
                Re: Regular expression question Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-28 11:41 -0700
                Re: Regular expression question Antony Scriven <adscriven@gmail.com> - 2011-10-28 12:54 -0700
  Re: Regular expression question Dr J R Stockton <reply1143@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-10-27 19:41 +0100
    Re: Regular expression question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-10-28 04:12 +0200

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