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• Feb

  18

  2009

  Be Careful parsing your URL string with Javascript

  …so I know you’ve looked around the net for a good method to parse URL variables with javascript, and I’m sure that you’ve found some elegant method that looks something like:
  function parseLocation() {
  var turl = window.location.search;
  ar = turl.split(’&’);
  var b = {};

  for (var i = 0; i < ar.length; i++) {
  var c = ar[i].split(’=');
  b[c[0]] = c[1];
  }
  return [...]

  posted in ajax, coding, hackery, javascript by chip