Why is pathname.split array length the same on all pages?

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Hi, i am creating a button to perform different functions depending on if it is in a subfolder or not.
I am splitting the pathname of whatever page i am on by ‘/’ and running a different function if the pathname.split(‘/’).length is: [1], [2], or [3].

The problem is that on all the pages on my site whether they are:

mysite.com/page
mysite.com/folder/page
mysite.com/folder/folder/page
are all giving me an array length of [2], which is preventing me from running an if statement for each length.

var host = window.location.host;
var path = window.location.pathname;
var sub = path.split('/');
var subL = sub.length;
alert(subL);

does anyone have any insight on this? Thanks

2

I’m guessing you either have another logic error e.g. location is not what you are expecting, or you are expecting different values for mysite.com/ vs mysite.com/page.

3

so i managed to work it out. for some reason it just wasn’t defining the variable properly.
instead of going through path > sub > subL as i did in the original code i posted, i just defined it straight up:

var subL = window.location.pathname.split('/').length;

not sure why it didn’t work the other way. thanks for your reply :+1:t2: