Question

I found one library, jQuery URL Parser, which seems to be full-featured as far as parsing out the various segments of a URL. I’m trying to go one step further though, and parse the values of the query parameters.

For example, given the URL "http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=rm+-rf+%2F" I’d like to get "rm -rf /" for the q parameter. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

As a side note, I’m not operating on the URL of the current page so any location magic doesn’t apply.

Answer 1

It looks as though the library you referenced can indeed retrieve query string values as given under the section called Query string parameters:

The .param() method is used to return
the values of querystring parameters.

Pass in a string to access that
parameter’s value:

$.url('http://allmarkedup.com?sky=blue&grass=green').param('sky');
// returns 'blue' If no argument is
passed in it will return an object
literal containing a key:value map of
all the querystring parameters.

$.url('http://allmarkedup.com?sky=blue&grass=green').param();
// returns { 'sky':'blue',
'grass':'green' } Note that the
.param() method will work on both
ampersand-split and semicolon-split
querystrings.