JavaScript String Manipulation

Question

I'm using Javascript to grab a variable passed through the URL:

function get_url_parameter( param ){
  param = param.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
  var r1 = "[\\?&]"+param+"=([^&#]*)";
  var r2 = new RegExp( r1 );
  var r3 = r2.exec( window.location.href );
  if( r3 == null )
   return "";
  else
    return r3[1];
 }

Once I have the parameter required

var highlightsearch = get_url_parameter('search');

I want to be able to delete all of the string after the ">".

e.g

The result currently looks like this:

highlightsearch = "Approved%20XXXXX%20XXXXX>YYYY%20YYYYYYY%20YYYY%20-%20YYYY%20YYYY";

After my string manipulation I want it to hopefully look like

highlightsearch = "Approved%20XXXXX%20XXXXX";

Any help would be great.

Shameless plug, but your URL param function isn't very efficient, it doesn't work with encoded params or decode the result. See stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/… for a more robust solution. — Andy E
– Andy E, Commented Nov 10, 2010 at 10:01

stpe · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-10 09:58:32Z

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The following will get you everything before the ">":

var highlightsearch = get_url_parameter('search');

// highlightsearch = "1234>asdf"

highlightsearch = highlightsearch.slice(0, highlightsearch.indexOf(">"));

// highlightsearch = "1234"

answered Nov 10, 2010 at 9:58

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Andy E · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-10 10:04:32Z

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Regular expression to match ">" and everything after it: >.*

highlightsearch = highlightsearch.replace(/>.*/, '')

edited Nov 10, 2010 at 10:04

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answered Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54

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darrenhamilton Over a year ago

Thanks folks. Working on it now.

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