modifying url with jquery

Question

how would one take part of the current page's url and change just a couple letters of it? Assuming jQuery would be the way to go?

for instance: clicking a button counts the number of gets the 19th and 20th character EN of

www.papercuts.com/EN/boxes/mailingtubes.html

and changes it to DE

www.papercuts.com/DE/boxes/mailingtubes.html

Sinetheta · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-23 21:11:33Z

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and redirects?

window.location = window.location.href.replace(/.com\/.{2}/, '.com/DE');

edit: all language support by anstosa

answered Jan 23, 2012 at 21:11

Sinetheta

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This will work regardless of what the current language currently is: window.location = window.location.href.replace(/.com\/.{2}/, '.com/DE');

TimWolla · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-23 21:17:43Z

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germanURL = englishURL.replace(/papercuts.com\/EN\//, 'papercuts.com/DE/');

Simply use replace to replace the papercuts.com/EN/.

answered Jan 23, 2012 at 21:10

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this doesnt account for pages not using www.

@Chad I though this would be self explainable, but I'll edit.