How to parse a URL?

Question

If there is one thing I just cant get my head around, it\'s regex.

So after a lot of searching I finally found this one that suits my needs:

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Answer 1

Please note that this solution is not the best. I made this just to match the requirements of the OP. I personally would suggest looking into the other answers.

THe following regexp will give you back the domain and the rest. :\/\/(.[^\/]+)(.*):

1. www.google.com
2. /goosomething

I suggest you studying the RegExp documentation here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

Using your function:

function get_domain_name()
    { 
    aaaa="http://www.somesite.se/blah/sdgsdgsdgs";
    //aaaa="http://somesite.se/blah/sese";
        var matches = aaaa.match(/:\/\/(?:www\.)?(.[^/]+)(.*)/);
        alert(matches[1]);
        alert(matches[2]);
    }