How to get the anchor from the URL using jQuery

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I have a URL that is like   www example com task1 1 3 html a 1   How can I get the a 1 anchor value using jQuery and store it as a variable

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If you just have a plain url string  and therefore don t have a hash attribute  you can also use a regular expression   var url    www example com task1 1 3 html a 1    var anchor   url match          1

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Use   window location hash   to retrieve everything beyond and including the

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For current window  you can use this   var hash   window location hash substr 1     To get the hash value of the main window  use this   var hash   window top location hash substr 1     If you have a string with an URL hash  the easiest method is   var url    https   www stackoverflow com questions 123 abc 10076097   var hash   url split      pop      If you re using jQuery  use this   var hash     location  attr  hash

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You can use the following  trick  to parse any valid URL  It takes advantage of the anchor element s special href-related property  hash   With jQuery  function getHashFromUrl url       return     lt a   gt    attr  href   url  0  hash replace              getHashFromUrl  www example com task1 1 3 html a 1       a 1   With plain JS  function getHashFromUrl url       var a   document createElement  a        a href   url      return a hash replace               getHashFromUrl  www example com task1 1 3 html a 1       a 1

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jQuery style     location  attr  hash

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You can use the  indexOf   and  substring    like this   var url    www aaa com task1 1 3 html a 1   var hash   url substring url indexOf      1     You can give it a try here  if it may not have a   in it  do an if url indexOf         -1  check like this   var url    www aaa com task1 1 3 html a 1   idx   url indexOf       var hash   idx    -1   url substring idx 1            If this is the current page URL  you can just use window location hash to get it  and replace the   if you wish

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