Extract parameter value from url using regular expressions

Question

This should be very simple (when you know the answer). From this question

I want to give the posted solution a try. My question is:

How to get the parameter

Answer 1

Why dont you take the string and split it

Example on the url

var url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?p=DB852818BF378DAC&v=1q-k-uN73Gk"

you can do a split as

var params = url.split("?")[1].split("&");

You will get array of strings with params as name value pairs with "=" as the delimiter.