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

$url = 'http://mysite.com/section/subsection';

$path = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);

$components = explode('/', $path);

$first_part = $components[0];