How can I cut a substring from a string to the end using Javascript?

Question

I have a url:

http://localhost/40ATV/dashboard.php?page_id=projeto_lista&lista_tipo=equipe

I want to get the address after the last dash using javascript:

dashboard.php?page_id=projeto_lista&lista_tipo=equipe

Answer 1

You can use indexOf and substr to get the sub-string you want:

//using a string variable set to the URL you want to pull info from
//this could be set to `window.location.href` instead to get the current URL
var strIn  = 'http://localhost/40ATV/dashboard.php?page_id=projeto_lista&lista_tipo=equipe',

    //get the index of the start of the part of the URL we want to keep
    index  = strIn.indexOf('/dashboard.php'),

    //then get everything after the found index
    strOut = strIn.substr(index);

The strOut variable now holds everything after /dashboard.php (including that string).

Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/DupwQ/

UPDATE:

The strOut variable in the example above includes the prefixed forward slash and it was requested that the output should not.

Replacing strOut = strIn.substr(index) with strOut = strIn.substr(index + 1) fixes the output for this specific use case by starting the substring one character farther ahead in the string.

Something else you could do is search for the string after a specific search term (non-inclusive):

var strIn = 'http://localhost/40ATV/dashboard.php?page_id=projeto_lista&lista_tipo=equipe';
var searchTerm = '/dashboard.php?';
var searchIndex = strIn.indexOf(searchTerm);
var strOut = strIn.substr(searchIndex + searchTerm.length); //this is where the magic happens :)

strOut now holds everything after /dashboard.php? (non-inclusive).

Here is an updated demo: http://jsfiddle.net/7ud0pnmr/1/

Docs -

• indexOf(): https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/indexOf
• substr(): https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/substr
• String.length: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/length