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 :

Answer 1

Here is the quick way to get that in javascript

var urlPath = window.location.pathname.split("/");
if (urlPath.length > 1) {
  var first_part = urlPath[1];
  alert(first_part); 
}