I'm trying to split the following url:

.aspx/Books/The-happy-donkey

in order to get only .aspx

I'm using JavaScript window.location.href and split but not success so far.

How can this be done? thanks!

I'm trying to split the following url:

http://www.store.com/products.aspx/Books/The-happy-donkey

in order to get only http://www.store.com/products.aspx

I'm using JavaScript window.location.href and split but not success so far.

How can this be done? thanks!

• javascript

• Firstly look at this question, it maybe helpfull for you stackoverflow.com/questions/15534673/… is it? – Boris Zagoruiko Commented Mar 21, 2013 at 2:34
• 1 is it specifically for the url only, or do you intend to use the function generically... as in, what if you just remove the "/Books/The-Happy-donkey" part? – Ryan Commented Mar 21, 2013 at 2:35
• The "/Books/The-Happy-donkey" is dynamic, so the only reference i have is the .aspx part, but with split is doing no good – Arturo Suarez Commented Mar 21, 2013 at 2:38
• @GlenSwift actually no... I need the whole page until .aspx so i can connect into a webMethod :( – Arturo Suarez Commented Mar 21, 2013 at 2:40
• Hi, I'm finding it hard to understand your question, would you mind adding more inputs with expected output? It's hard to induce from a single example with this description. – Benjamin Gruenbaum Commented Mar 21, 2013 at 2:42

5 Answers 5

Try this

var fullurl = "http://www.store.com/products.aspx/Books/The-happy-donkey",
    url = fullurl.split(".aspx")[0] + ".aspx";

In the case of a url: http://www.store.com/products.aspx/Books/The-happy-donkey from the address bar

 var path = window.location.pathname;
 var str = path.split("/");
 var url = document.location.protocol + "//" + document.location.hostname + "/" + str[1];

This isn't unwieldy, is it?

var url = 'http://www.store.com/products.aspx/Books/The-happy-donkey';

[
    url.split('://')[0] + '://', 
    url.split('://')[1].split('/').slice(0,2).join('/')
].join('')

A little less cheeky:

url.split('/').slice(0, 4).join('/')

The better answer (than split) is probably with a regex honestly unless you just REALLY need to use split (for the fun of it):

var shorterUrl = window.location.href.replace(/\.aspx.+/gi, ".aspx");

this replaces the end of your given url, starting at .aspx and just keeps the .aspx part.

But foremost, this is not a good solution tactic to a specific problem (try to solve problems like this more generically).

try this, you would get object of url

console.log(new URL(document.URL));