How to implement wildcards for window.location.pathname [duplicate]

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I have the following code and I would like to make the function work on any URL containing "blog" instead of a specific URL. Please help me with the correct syntax, thanks.

window.setTimeout(function() {
if (window.location.pathname != '/home/legal-documentation' &&
window.location.pathname != '/home/blog/australian-business-news'
) {
erOpenLoginRegisterbox(jQuery);
}
return false;
}, 1000);


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I think you are looking for indexOf: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/indexOf It will return -1 if it does not find the string it is passed, so testing for -1 seems to correlate with your approach. Furthermore, to be on the safe side, in case you also want to exclude blog in a case-insensitive manner (in other words, you want to test for Blog, blog, BLOG, etc.), I refer to pathname as though it were uppercase (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/toUpperCase), and then compare it to 'BLOG'

indexOf

window.setTimeout(function() {
if (window.location.pathname.toUpperCase().indexOf('BLOG') === -1) {
erOpenLoginRegisterbox(jQuery);
}
return false;
}, 1000);


What you are looking for is a Regular Expression. These are used to match a certain combination of characters, in your case, you can use String.prototype.match() in order to find Strings containing the word "blog" using this RegEx:

String.prototype.match()

/blog/gi


or, in your function:

window.setTimeout(function() {
if (window.location.pathname.match(/blog/gi)) {
erOpenLoginRegisterbox(jQuery);
}
return false;
}, 1000);