removing slashes from pathname

[jeremy_myers]

I want to use pathname in another variable, but first I need to remove the leading and trailing slashes.  How can I do this?

[christina_schel]

Hi @jeremy_myers

Are you wanting to remove the slashes from the entire pathname? e.g. /localhost/example/author/admin/

Or do you want to remove the leading and trailing slashes of each pathname section? e.g. /example/

If it is the ladder, are you already using the pathname tokenizer extension?

Thanks

[jeremy_myers]

I'm trying to just remove the leading and trailing slashes.  I haven't implemented the pathname tokenizer because I thought this would rip apart the whole pathname into separate pieces.  Is that not the case?

[christina_schel · Accepted solution]

@jeremy_myers,

Yes, that's right. The pathname tokenizer splits up the pathname into sections and stores each section in varialbes. 

If you would just like to remove the leading and trailing slashes of the utag.data['dom.pathname'], you can add a Set Data Values extension in TiQ to set the new pathname variable to the following:

b['dom.pathname'].replace(/^\/|\/$/g, '');

Here is a full example:

I do not know the details of your use case so if you have any issues with this implementation, let me know the details.

Thanks!