url_strip_fragment

url

Removes the fragment/anchor from a URL

Syntax

url_strip_fragment(url)

Parameters

url (string)

The URL string to modify

Returns

string

The URL without the fragment

Examples

Input: 
url_strip_fragment("https://example.com/page#section")
Output: 
"https://example.com/page"
Input: 
url_strip_fragment("https://example.com/docs?search=value#results")
Output: 
"https://example.com/docs?search=value"

The url_strip_fragment() function removes the fragment identifier (also called anchor or hash) from a URL, including the ”#” character and everything after it.

Usage

Use url_strip_fragment() when you need to clean URLs for canonical purposes, deduplication, or when fragments are not relevant for your analysis, such as normalizing URLs for counting unique page views.

Related Functions

url_parse url_strip_query_string url_extract_path