Remove_anchor_from_URL.md

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Remove anchor from URL

Complete the function/method so that it returns the url with anything after the anchor (#) removed.

Examples

# returns 'www.codewars.com'
remove_url_anchor('www.codewars.com#about')

# returns 'www.codewars.com?page=1'
remove_url_anchor('www.codewars.com?page=1')

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Given Code

def remove_url_anchor(url):
    # TODO: complete

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Solution 1

def remove_url_anchor(url):
    return url[:url.find("#")] if "#" in url else url

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Solution 2

def remove_url_anchor(url):
    return url.split("#")[0]

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Solution 3

def remove_url_anchor(url):
    import re
    return re.sub('#.*$','',url)

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