Parsing an URL in JavaScript

Question

I need to parse url in JavaScript.

Here is my code:

var myRe = /\?*([^=]*)=([^&]*)/;
var myArray = myRe.exec("?page=3&Name=Alex");


for(var i=1;i<myArray.length;i++)
{
    alert(myArray[i]);   
}

Unfortunately it only works for first name=value pair.

How I can correct my code?

possible duplicate of [Parse query string in JavaScript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2090551/parse-query-string-in-javascript) — Felix Kling, Sep 02 '11 at 13:15
According to your example You need to parse only Query String part of URL (after question sign)? — Andrew D., Sep 02 '11 at 13:17

Jamiec · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-02T13:23:56.103

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exec returns a match, or null if no match found. So you need to keep execing until it returns null.

var myRe = /\?*([^=]*)=([^&]*)/;
var myArray;
while((myArray = myRe.exec("?page=3&Name=Alex")) !== null)
{
  for(var i=1;i<myArray.length;i++)
  {
      alert(myArray[i]);   
  }
}

Also, you're regex is wrong, it definately needs th g switch, but I got it working using this regex:

var regex = /([^=&?]+)=([^&]+)/g;

See Live example: http://jsfiddle.net/GyXHA/

edited Sep 02 '11 at 13:23

answered Sep 02 '11 at 13:15

Jamiec

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+1 `exec` will return an array or `null`, so `!== null` is superfluous. Also, you might want to add a semicolon on the second line. – pimvdb Sep 02 '11 at 13:19
this dont works for _"?page=&Name=Alex"_ (page parameter has empty value) and, possible, if anchor id _#_ is specified – Andrew D. Sep 02 '11 at 14:33
@Andrew - was there a requirement for it to do so? Plus change the `*`'s for `+` and it'll work for blank values too. – Jamiec Sep 02 '11 at 14:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 02 '11 at 13:20

If all you're trying to do is get query string name/value pairs you could do something like this:

function getQueryStringValue(varName) {
    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 (pair[0] == varName) { return pair[1]; }
    }
}

Andrew D. · Answer 3 · 2011-09-02T15:33:14.570

var qs="da?page=3&page=4&Name=&xxx=43&page=&#adasdsadsa";
var params=qs.replace(/^.*\??/g,'').replace(/#.*/g,'').match(/[^&\?]+/g);
var args={};
if(params)for(var i=0;i<params.length;i++) {
  var propval=params[i].split('=');
  if(!args.hasOwnProperty(propval[0]))args[propval[0]]=[];
  args[propval[0]].push(propval[1]);
}

// result:
// args=== {
//   Name: [""],
//   page: ["3","4",""],
//   xxx: ["43"]
// }

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