fast and easy way of parsing query strings in JavaScript

Revision: 66480

at May 13, 2014 03:52 by buda9

Initial Code

function getQueryVariable(variable) {
    var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
    var vars = query.split('&');
    for (var i = 0; i < vars.length; i++) {
        var pair = vars[i].split('=');
        if (decodeURIComponent(pair[0]) == variable) {
            return decodeURIComponent(pair[1]);
        }
    }
    console.log('Query variable %s not found', variable);
}

Initial URL

Initial Description

Now make a request to page.html?x=Hello:

console.log(getQueryVariable('x'));

Initial Title

fast and easy way of parsing query strings in JavaScript

Initial Tags

query

Initial Language

CSS

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