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

Slight modification to the answer by @pauloppenheim , as it will not properly handle parameter names which can be a part of other parameter names.

Eg: If you have "appenv" & "env" parameters, redeaing the value for "env" can pick-up "appenv" value.

Fix:

var urlParamVal = function (name) {
    var result = RegExp("(&|\\?)" + name + "=(.+?)(&|$)").exec(location.search);
    return result ? decodeURIComponent(result[2]) : "";
};