正则表达式捕获斜线之间的字符串

Question

I want to capture show name which is between / /

http://www.voot.com/shows/ splitsvilla-s09 /1/411756/love-turns-sour/425120

I tried

window.location.href.split('/')[4];

How to capture the highlighted part?

Answer 1

Try this:

var url = "http://www.voot.com/shows/splitsvilla-s09/1/411756/love-turns-sour/425120";
var name = /shows\/([^\/]+)/.exec(url)[1];

Answer 2

Try it:

var string = "http://www.voot.com/shows/splitsvilla-s09/1/411756/love-turns-sour/425120"

var matches = string.match(/(\/[\w+-]+)/g);

console.log(matches[2].replace("/",""));

Answer 3

Try this

var str  = "http://www.voot.com/shows/splitsvilla-s09/1/411756/love-turns-sour/425120"
str.match(/shows\/\w+/g).join('').split('/')[1]

Answer 4

Just for completeness, a proposal with String#match :

 var url = 'http://www.voot.com/shows/splitsvilla-s09/1/411756/love-turns-sour/425120'; console.log(url.match(/shows\\/([^\\/]*)/)[1]);