Need to dynamically pull in breadcrumb for Google Analytics Custom Variable

[surfbird0713]

I am brand new to JavaScript and JSP coding, and have been tasked with something that feels over my head - hoping someone here can help me out.

The goal of my project is to dynamically populate fields to pull in the breadcrumb trail from a page into a custom variable in Google Analytics. What I need to do is populate the fields:

_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',
2,
'BreadCrumb2',
'BreadCrumb3 | Breadcrumb 4 | Breadcrumb 5',
3
]);

with information from our breadcrumb trail that is set up like this (sometimes it only goes as deep as breadcrumb 3 but there could be up to 2 additional):

Home >> BreadCrumb2 >> BreadCrumb3 >> BreadCrumb4


I have played around with the existing code that sets up our breadcrumbs to no avail - Google Debugger throws an error whenever I have any versions of this code in there:

<c:set var="breadCrumbs" value="${categoryVB.breadCrumbs}" />
    <c:set var="topCategory" value="${breadCrumbs}" />
    <c:set var="subCategory" value="${breadCrumbs}" />
    <c:forEach var="breadCrumb" items="${breadCrumbs}" varStatus="status" > 
    </c:forEach>
<c:choose>
    <c:when test="${lastCmdName eq 'CategoryDisplay'}">
            <script type="text/javascript">
            _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',
                                     2,                   // This custom var is set to slot #2.
      '<c:choose><c:when test="${status.index != 2}">
                    <c:out value="${topCategory.value}" />
                </c:when><c:otherwise>
        </c:otherwise></c:choose>',           // I am trying to tell it to pull in the information from the 2nd breadcrumb in the path  
      '<c:if test="${status.index != 2}" >
            <c:choose>
                <c:when test="${status.last}">
                    <c:out value="${subCategory.value}" />
                </c:when>
                <c:otherwise>
                    <c:out value="${topCategory.value}" />
                </c:otherwise>
            </c:choose>
        </c:if>',  // Trying to tell it to pull in the values after the 2nd breadcrumb if they are there, otherwise, fill this spot with the value of the 2nd breadcrumb. 
      3                    // Sets the scope to page-level.
   ]);
            </script>
        </c:when>
        <c:otherwise>
        </c:otherwise>
</c:choose>

I need to figure out how to manipulate that code, or is there a way I can use JavaScript to create a variable for me based on the information? So I can say:

JavaScript:

Tell me what it says between the first instance of >> and second instance of >> and create something called "Category"

and then I can put that into the Google code?

_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',
2,
'JavaScriptVariableCategory',
'Everything After BreadCrumb3',
3 // Sets the scope to page-level.
]);

I would appreciate any and all advice, hints, help anyone can offer. I feel very lost here.

Thanks