taking off the http or https off a javascript string

Question

I have the following strings

http://example.com
https://example.com
http://www.example.com

how do i get rid of the http:// or

Answer 1

Assuming there are no double slashes other than the protocol, you could do:

 var url = "https://example.com";
 var noProtocol = url.split('//')[1];