Get escaped URL parameter

Question

I\'m looking for a jQuery plugin that can get URL parameters, and support this search string without outputting the JavaScript error: \"malformed URI sequence\". If there is

Answer 1

Below is what I have created from the comments here, as well as fixing bugs not mentioned (such as actually returning null, and not 'null'):

function getURLParameter(name) {
    return decodeURIComponent((new RegExp('[?|&]' + name + '=' + '([^&;]+?)(&|#|;|$)').exec(location.search)||[,""])[1].replace(/\+/g, '%20'))||null;
}