How can I use jQuery to match a string inside the current URL of the window I am in?
- by Jannis
Hi,
I have used the excellent gskinner.com/RegExr/ tool to test my string matching regex but I cannot figure out how to implement this into my jQuery file to return true or false.
The code I have is as follows:
^(http:)\/\/(.+\.)?(stackoverflow)\.
on a url such as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask this would match (according to RegExr) http://stackoverflow.
So this is great because I want to try matching the current window.location to that string, but the issue I am having is that this jQuery/js script does not work:
var url = window.location;
if ( url.match( /^(http:)\/\/(.+\.)?(stackoverflow)\./ ) )
{
alert('this works');
};
Any ideas on what I am doing wrong here?
Thanks for reading.
Jannis
