How do I get the everything after this string?

Question

I've appended a value to my url, so it looks like this now:

www.somepage.com&myValue=xxxxx

I get my url as follows:

var url = document.URL;

What I want now is everything after myValue= .

What regex would I use to acheive this?

Answer 1

Quick and dirty:

//split the url at the "&"
  split_back=(url.split("&"));
//now split the url at the "="
  split_value=(split_back[1].split("="));

The value you need is in split_value[1]. check this jsfiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/55rmkx76/2/

Answer 2

You could do like this,

> var s = 'www.somepage.com&myValue=xxxxx';
undefined
> var re = /myValue=(.*)/;
undefined
> console.log(re.exec(s)[1])
xxxxx
undefined
> var s = 'www.somepage.com&myValue=xxxxx';
undefined
> s.split('myValue=')[1]
'xxxxx'