Regex to get first word after slash in URL

Question

I need to get the first word after slash in a url in javascript, I assume using a regex would be ideal.

Here's an idea of what the URLs can possibly look like :

• http://mysite.com/section/
• http://mysite.com/section/subsection/
• http://mysite.com/section-with-dashes/
• http://mysite.com/section_with_underscores/

In bold is what I need the regex to match for each scenario, so basically only the first portion after the slash, no matter how many further slashes there are.

I'm at a complete loss here, appreciate the help.

Answer 1

JavaScript with RegEx. This will match anything after the first / until we encounter another /.

window.location.pathname.replace(/^\/([^\/]*).*$/, '$1');

Answer 2

Non-regex.

var link = document.location.href.split('/');
alert(link[3]);