How to remove everything after "?" from string (URL+tracking code)?

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Occasionally webpages show an URL with an appended “?” and a tracking code like

http://www.foobar.com/some/path/before.html?after-is-tracking=12345

Assume I assign this URL to a variable:

How can I remove (with Javascript or even better with jQuery) everything after “?” including the “?” itself?

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var url = new URL('http://www.foobar.com/some/path/before.html?after-is-tracking=12345');
url.hash = '';
url.search = '';
console.log(url.toString());

This strips both the query string as well as any fragment hash from the URL.

(answer found here)

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thestring.split("?")[0]

(There will only ever be one ? in a URL because it’s a special character. Which means basic string manipulation works without casting to objects and whatnot.)

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