Question

I get a longString from object’s onclick value

var longString = String(this.onclick);

output like below;

function onclick(event) { window.location.href = “index.html?q1=v1&g2=v2”; }

I want parse that like below:

index.html?q1=v1&g2=v2

How can I do this with pure js or jquery which works with all browser?

Answer 1

Here’s one way to do it if you don’t like regular expressions.

var str = 'function onclick(event) { window.location.href = "index.html?q1=v1&g2=v2"; }';
var idx = str.indexOf('"')+1;
var res = str.substr(idx, str.lastIndexOf('"') - idx );

Try it out: http://jsfiddle.net/Tk8aw/