remove hostname and port from url using regular expression

html, javascript, regex

Solution

To javascript you can use this code:

var URL = "http://localhost:7001/www.facebook.com";
var newURL = URL.replace (/^[a-z]{4,5}\:\/{2}[a-z]{1,}\:[0-9]{1,4}.(.*)/, '$1'); // http or https
alert (newURL);

Look at this code in action Here

Regards, Victor

Problem

I am trying to remove ``` http://localhost:7001/ ``` part from ``` http://localhost:7001/www.facebook.com ``` to get the output as ``` www.facebook.com ``` what is the regular expression that i can use to achieve this exact pattern?

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