Question about parsing a number of out a URL

ipeebles

Good afternoon.  I have a case where I need to parse a number out of a web url and store it within a data input form.

The valid application url is this:  http://<machinename>/<applicationname>

However, I need to send a URL by clicking on the button that reads something like this:  http://<machinename>/<applicationname>/19305

Of course this is not a real application site, so as the application is loading, I need to parse out 19305 so it reads http://<machinename>/<applicationname>.  I then need to take the parsed value, then send it to an input form so it will locate within an application.

Has anyone done this?

Ian

khutchins

Ian

If you want to be able to click a button that goes to http://machine/app/19305 but really gets loaded as http://machine/app you'll need a server side piece to handle the routing. To get that question answered you may want to post on a site like Stack Overflow.

To handle if from the client side you'd want to go with the url parameter approach so when users clicked on the button they'd go to http://yourappurl?id=19305

Then you could use javascript like Paul and I posted above to get the id value from the url.