javascript - What is causing the error `string.split is not a function`?

Question

Why am I getting...

Uncaught TypeError: string.split is not a function

...when I run...

var string = document.location;
var split = string.split('/');

Answer 1

Change this...

var string = document.location;

to this...

var string = document.location + '';

This is because document.location is a Location object. The default .toString() returns the location in string form, so the concatenation will trigger that.

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You could also use document.URL to get a string.