extract strings between last two slashes using regular expression in javascript

Question

I want to extract the string between last two string using a regular expression. I cannot seem to be able to come up with the right expression, if someone could help me that wou

Answer 1

I know you said you wanted to use a regex but for those looking for a solution but don't require it to be a regex, you could do this simply by splitting the string:

 var originalString = 'aa/bbbb/ccccc/eeee/fffff.jpg';

 //convert to array
 var parts = originalString.split('/');

 //find the second to last item
 var lastPartOfPath = '';

 //make sure there are more than one part
 if (parts.length > 1) {
      lastPartOfPath = parts[parts.length-2];
 }