Javascript regular expression: remove first and last slash

Question

I have these strings in javascript:

/banking/bonifici/italia
/banking/bonifici/italia/

and I would like to remove the first and last slash

Answer 1

There's no real reason to use a regex here, string functions will work fine:

var string = "/banking/bonifici/italia/";
if (string.charAt(0) == "/") string = string.substr(1);
if (string.charAt(string.length - 1) == "/") string = string.substr(0, string.length - 1);
// string => "banking/bonifici/italia"

See this in action on jsFiddle.

References:

• String.substr
• String.charAt