jQuery - pulling part of a url through regex

Question

I am trying to set a variable. The variable should be parts of a Search query in the URL. I'm assuming to use REGEX to achieve this. IE URL: http://tsqja.deznp.servertrust.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=true+ glass&x=0&y=0

I want to pull the words 'true' and 'glass' in the example above and throw them in a jQuery variable.

ie. var newKeys = $(search keys = some code);

I am no good at using REGEX but would this just be my variable?

/^http:\/\/(tsqja\.)?deznp\.servertrust\./i,/Search=([^&]+)/i

Joseph Marikle · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-23 18:15:32Z

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is this for a url alone or for the current url of the page the javascript is on? if the latter, it's as simple as

location.search.split("&")[0].split("=")[1]

otherwise you could do

var url = "http://tsqja.deznp.servertrust.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=true+glass&x=0&y=0";
url.match(/[?]Search=([^&]*)/)[1];

EDIT

So something like this might work (per your comments)

var url = "http://tsqja.deznp.servertrust.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=true+glass&x=0&y=0";
var theKeys = url.split("Search=")[1].split("&")[0].replace("+"," ");

edited Sep 23, 2011 at 18:15

answered Sep 23, 2011 at 18:07

Joseph Marikle

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ToddN Over a year ago

The site wide URL is (in this example) tsqja.deznp.servertrust and the code will be placed in a template so on every page. The URL I want is JUST for the url with the query Search= in it.

Joseph Marikle Over a year ago

@ToddN but you only need true+glass when you're on a page with a url like http://tsqja.deznp.servertrust.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=true+glass&x=0&y=0 correct?

ToddN Over a year ago

In the first example, could I use .split("Search=") so it would only pull from the URL with Search= in it?

ToddN Over a year ago

I actually need something like this to be the end all result: keys: theKeys //true glass

Joseph Marikle Over a year ago

@ToddN Yes you could, but you would probably need to do something like url.split("Search=")[1].split("&")[0] to just get the true+glass.

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