how to get the string after specific substring jquery

Question

i have a string like this

var url="http://localhost/elephanti2/chaink/stores/stores_ajax_page/5/b.BusinessName/asc/1/11"

i want to get the string after the 7 th slash(/)

here it would be 5/b.BusinessName/asc/1/11

Answer 1

You don't need jquery for this, just pure JS.

var url= "http://localhost/elephanti2/chaink/stores/stores_ajax_page/5/b.BusinessName/asc/1/11"
re = /^([^\/]*\/){7}(.+)/
result = url.match(re)[2]

Regular expressions in javascript: http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html

Answer 2

Rather than counting slashes, you should probably look for the part of the path right after a marker such as this:

var url="http://localhost/elephanti2/chaink/stores/stores_ajax_page/5/b.BusinessName/asc/1/11";
var endPath = url.replace(/^.*\/stores_ajax_page\//, "");

This is a little less brittle if the front part of the path ever gets changed.