[thelist] Testing URL with regular expression

[Gardiner, Iain]

Morning all,
 
I'm making my first foray into regular expressions today because I've found
that I need to make a simple test in Javascript.  I was wondering if anyone
can give me advice on methodology.
 
Basically,  I want to check the window.location against the href element of
a link but it's important that it can match if the filename and/or anchors
are included.  So I've arrived at this expression:
 
    urlRegEx = /(index.php)?(#{1}.*)?/;
 
And I use this conditional:
 
    if (navigationLink.href == window.location + urlRegEx)
 
Hopefully this will match all of these eventualities:
 
    URL/
    URL/index.php
    URL/#anchor
    URL/index.php#anchor
 
I am not in a position to test this out at the moment, but I was hoping
someone could verify or offer advice on how it should be done and how best
to achieve it.
 
Thanks,
 
Iain