How to check string in current URL with javascript?

Question

My Url looks like:

http://mywebsite/series/2545-abc

But I don't know how to check URL with regex. So, How to check url current windows with above URL?

I mean:

If Url = http://mywebsite/series/2545-abc
  do something

location.pathname gets only the path i.e. /series/2545-abc. to get the full url use `location.href`. Is that what you mean by checking the URL? — gp., May 18 '14 at 10:04
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406192/how-to-get-the-current-url-in-javascript — Nicolas78, May 18 '14 at 10:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '21 at 02:44

What about this? The regular expression defined at the first line is tested against the URL:

var myRe = /\/series\//; //regular expression to use
if(myRe.test(window.location.href)){
    alert("matching");
}else{
    alert("not matching");
}

If you want to test for the whole URL (and really want to use a regular expression for that), you could replace the first line with

var myRe = /^http:\/\/mywebsite\/series\/2545-abc$/;

If you remove the dollar sign at the end, modifications at the end of the URL are accepted as well (e.g. http://mywebsite/series/2545-abc/foo.html)

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