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

My regex is pretty bad, so I will improvise with a less efficient solution :P

// The first part is to ensure you can handle both URLs with the http:// and those without

x = window.location.href.split("http:\/\/")
x = x[x.length-1];
x = x.split("\/")[1]; //Result is in x