substring a path to return dir name

lulu50
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Hi,

I need your help!!

My javascript:
 var URLname2 = document.location.href.match(/.*\/(.*)$/)[0];

the variable "URLname2" generate this path below
"http://localhost:00000/BusinessRules/Rule/1"

what I want for the "var URLname2" is to pull just the word "Rule" from the whole path

I'm not sure how this is done, but I tried Substring and didn't work. 

Thank you so much for your help, 
Lulu50

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leakim971Multitechnician
Top Expert 2014

Commented:
could you rephrase what you need?
leakim971Multitechnician
Top Expert 2014

Commented:
maybe :
var URLname2 = "http://localhost:00000/BusinessRules/Rule/1";
URLname2 = URLname2.replace(/Rule\//gi,"")

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lulu50

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Hi leakim971,

from this path;

"http://localhost:00000/BusinessRules/Rule/1"

I want to store the word "Rule" in a variable

var dir = "Rule";
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lulu50

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Commented:
I need this result

URLname2 = "Rule";
lulu50

Author

Commented:
I want to remove "http://localhost:00000/BusinessRules/" 
and
I want to remove "/1"
from this path: "http://localhost:00000/BusinessRules/Rule/1"
and
store "Rule" in my variable URLname2
lulu50

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Commented:
I got it

Thank you

            var pathArray = window.location.pathname.split('/');
            var secondLevelLocation = pathArray[2];
Juan Carlos

Commented: 
var URLname2 = document.location.href.match(/.*\/(.*)$/)[0];
var rule = URLname2.split('/')[4];

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var pathArray = window.location.pathname.split('/');
            var secondLevelLocation = pathArray[2];
lulu50

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Commented:
Thank you
Juan Carlos

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I'm late! :(

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