Question

I’m trying to come out with a regulat expression to extract the value of a querystring parameter

so far now I came with the following:

app.getValue = function() {
  var regExp = '[&?]'+$("#token").val()+'=(.*?)[&$]';
  var re = new RegExp(regExp);
  var res = re.exec($("#url").val());
  if (!res) return '';
  return res[1] || '';
}

the problem seems to be that the “$” in the end of the resultar expression is being interepreted as a literal character, and not as the end of the input string

so with the followgin querystring:

http://wines?len=10&page=500&filter=bogota and salvador&sort=name asc

looking for the token “sort” doesn’t get me anything, if I add a “&” or a “$” at the end of the string it works…

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

I looks like it is not possible to express an end-of-line character inside of a character class group. Instead, I think you can just use (&|$|,) to match a comma, ampersand, or end-of-line. Note that this creates a new match group, but that shouldn’t affect your code.