Get specific part of url of a link

Question

I want to get a specific part of a url between the third and fourth slashes of a link on the page.

EDIT: Sorry I don\'t think I was clear the first time, I meant get

Answer 1

Here's a working example of getting a particular path segment.

Code:

var url = "www.test.com/one/two/three?p1=v&p2=v#anc";
var file = url.split('?')[0];
var pathanddomain = file.split('/');
var path = pathanddomain.splice(1, pathanddomain.length-1);
var pathIndexToGet = 2;
document.write(path[pathIndexToGet]);​

If you want to do this for the current page, use:

var url = window.location.href;

Also, if your url starts with http(s)://, you will need to remove this.