How to get the last part of a string in JavaScript?

Question

My url will look like this:

http://www.example.com/category/action

How can I get the word \"action\". This last part of the url (after the last forward slash

Answer 1

Well, the first thing I can think of is using the split function.

string.split(separator, limit)

Since everyone suggested the split function, a second way wood be this:

var c = "http://www.example.com/category/action";
var l = c.match(/\w+/g)
alert(l)

The regexp is just a stub to get the idea. Basically you get every words in the url.

l = http,www,example,com,category,action

get the last one.