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Text from url on javascript
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Text from url
// Option 1
var url = "http://mywebsite.com/extractMe/test";
var extractedText = url.split("/")[3];
​// Option 2
// If when a trailing slash is present you want to return "test", use this code
var url = "http://mywebsite.com/extractMe/test/";
var urlAry = url.split("/");
var extractedText = urlAry[urlAry.length - 2];
​// Option 3
// If when a trailing slash is present you want to return "extractMe", use this:
var url = "http://mywebsite.com/extractMe/test/";
var urlAry = url.split("/");
var positionModifier = (url.charAt(url.length-1) == "/") ? 3 : 2;
var extractedText = urlAry[urlAry.length - positionModifier];
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