I have seen lots of jQuery examples where parameter size and name are unknown.
My URL is only going to ever have 1 string:
http://example.com?sent=ye
Admittedly I'm adding my answer to an over-answered question, but this has the advantages of:
-- Not depending on any outside libraries, including jQuery
-- Not polluting global function namespace, by extending 'String'
-- Not creating any global data and doing unnecessary processing after match found
-- Handling encoding issues, and accepting (assuming) non-encoded parameter name
-- Avoiding explicit for
loops
String.prototype.urlParamValue = function() {
var desiredVal = null;
var paramName = this.valueOf();
window.location.search.substring(1).split('&').some(function(currentValue, _, _) {
var nameVal = currentValue.split('=');
if ( decodeURIComponent(nameVal[0]) === paramName ) {
desiredVal = decodeURIComponent(nameVal[1]);
return true;
}
return false;
});
return desiredVal;
};
Then you'd use it as:
var paramVal = "paramName".urlParamValue() // null if no match