Question

i have a problem to get the whole query from the url using the toQueryParams function from the protoypejs framework e.G.:

var a = "http://anypage.com?a=lol&b=lal&c=laoa?&d=fehw#lalalalalSomeAnchor";

a.toQueryParams();

>> {d: 'fehw'}

what i want to get:

>> {a: 'lol', b: 'lal', c: 'loaa?', d: 'fehw'}

i know that url is invalid but i want to preprocess that url to escape its values before i sent it to the server.

I tried to change the functions regular expression to match only the chars between the first ? and the lastest #, i have already one expression /(\?.*#)/ which would work for me but i even want to exclude the ? and #, i hope someone of you can help me out 🙂

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Update: thanks to DaveRandom 🙂
for those who wants to fix that directly in the framwork replace following line with:

L625: var match = this.strip().match(/\?([^#]*)/); // (/([^?#]*)(#.*)?$/); default

Answer 1

How about this… /\?([^#]*)/?

You shouldn’t need to worry about matching up to the ‘last’ # because the anchor starts at the first #, therefore even if there is more than one # in the string, anything after the first occurence is not part of the query string.