JavaScript query string [closed]

Answer 1

I like to keep it simple, readable and small.

function searchToObject(search) {
    var pairs = search.substring(1).split("&"),
        obj = {}, pair;

    for (var i in pairs) {
        if (pairs[i] === "") continue;
        pair = pairs[i].split("=");
        obj[decodeURIComponent(pair[0])] = decodeURIComponent(pair[1]);
    }
    return obj;
}

searchToObject(location.search);

Example:

searchToObject('?query=myvalue')['query']; // spits out: 'myvalue'