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How do I convert domain.com/foo/bar/baz/ into a string like "foo bar baz"?

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Basically I want to be able to grab the ending of an url, and convert it into a string to be used somewhere.





Currently I'm doing this (which is less than optimal):







// grab the path, replace all the forward slashes with spaces

local_path = location.pathname.toString().replace(/\//g,' ');



// strip empty spaces from beginning / end of string

local_path.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,""));







But I think there is probably a better way. Help?





Edit: Could I confidently get rid of the .toString method there?


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  1. Tips For AllFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:15 AM

    You could do something like this if you want to avoid regular expressions:

    location.pathname.substring(1).split('/').join(' ')


    That will get rid of the initial slash, but won't take care of a trailing slash. If you need to deal with those, you can omit substring and use trim for modern implementations or a regex:

    location.pathname.split('/').join(' ').replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '')

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  2. Tips For AllFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:15 AM

    What's wrong with what you have? Looks fine to me. That is the easiest way to handle what you want to do.

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  3. Tips For AllFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:15 AM

    You could use the regex provided by Douglas Crockford on http://www.coderholic.com/javascript-the-good-parts/ and then split the path at the forward-slash.

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