How to remove "/" in JavaScript location.pathname return value

Question

I request the javascript guru masters again!

Okay this is probably simple, blowing my mind atm.

Example: http://example.com/page.php

var path = location.pathname;

Returns: /page.php

I would like it to not include the first / so it would return page.php

Thank you guru masters!

Answer 1

You just need to use one of the several substring functions.

var path = location.pathname.substr(1);

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Update: substr is now a deprecated method, so you should use slice instead.

var path = location.pathname.slice(1);