angularjs get paramater from url - asp.net

Question

i'm currently working on a asp.net mvc site in which we are using angularjs for model binding. i have a controller setup but i need to grab the id from the url to pass it to the service. my url looks like:
http://localhost/myapp/section/5
I need to grab the 5 out of the url, we are not using angular for routing, is there anyway to grab that through angular? Otherwise i could use .net to inject that into a global js variable and use angular to read the id from there.
I setup my angular controller as below:
myModule.controller('SectionController', ['$scope', 'sectionRepository', '$routeParams', SectionController]);
function SectionController($scope, sectionRepository, $routeParams) {
var vm = this;
alert($routeParams.id);
the alert returns 'undefined', I'm assuming because I never setup the routes in angular, is there a way to do it without the setup of routes, as we don't want to use angular for routing.

Answer 1

You can use the $location service to grab the URL. From there, just parse it.
function SectionController($location) {
var url = $location.url();
//regex is slow, you should use substring/slice instead
//var regex = /(?:section\/)[0-9]+/;
var id = url.substring(url.indexOf("section/") + "section/".length);
alert(id);
}