Insert string to url and redirect

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Is it possible to insert a stringi into url? Lets say I want www.domain.com/news to insert language flag de between com and news

Interesting! no effort try, no code but up vote ! – Pedram May 27 '18 at 07:11 — Pedram, May 27 '18 at 07:11

Koby Douek · Answer 1 · 2018-05-27T07:02:50.730

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You can use indexOf to find the / character position, and slice with join to break the string into an array and reconstruct it while inserting the 2nd string into this position:

var url = 'www.domain.com/news';
var flag= 'de/';

var position = url.indexOf('/') + 1;
url = [url.slice(0, position), flag, url.slice(position)].join('');

console.log(url);

edited May 27 '18 at 07:02

answered May 27 '18 at 06:57

Koby Douek

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That's what I needed, now in case of redirecting, just use window location with new url variable right? – Damian Doman May 27 '18 at 07:17

charlietfl · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-27T07:32:52.797

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If you have a full url string that includes protocol or you know the base url or if this is all based on current location you can use the URL API

const url = new URL('http://www.example.com/news');
url.pathname = '/de' + url.pathname;
console.log(url.href);

// using current page `location`
const pageurl = new URL(location.href);
pageurl.pathname = '/foobar' + pageurl.pathname;
console.log(pageurl.href);

edited May 27 '18 at 07:32

answered May 27 '18 at 07:19

charlietfl

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I believe this answer should mark as accepted, because it makes sense, it work even URL is `http://www.example.com/news/some/blah/blah` – Pedram May 27 '18 at 07:25
@Pedram right...no need to figure out index of `/` or try splitting things up and joining them yourself – charlietfl May 27 '18 at 07:27

Insert string to url and redirect

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