jQuery slice between 2 things?

[rockinaway]

I am trying to slice a string but between two set points. I have a string with the value '&hello=now#".

 

I basically want to snip out the information between & and # so i can manipulate it. I can't just use substr as I have a varying length of the string. Any help as to how to do this?

[AyKay47]

if the string is to be dynamic, then you will want to look into using a regex to match your search specifications.

[Adam]

Is this the location of the current Window? If so you can use the window.location.search property to get exactly what you're after. If you just have a URL string in a variable, I would just use string functions for this:

 

var url = 'http://example.com/?foo=bar&baz=qux#hash';

if (url.indexOf('?') != -1) {
    var query = url.substr(url.indexOf('?') + 1);
    if (url.lastIndexOf('#') != -1) {
        query = query.replace(query.substr(query.lastIndexOf('#')), '');
    }
}

 

There's possibly a function or object that exists that I've overlooked that can do this already.

 

[rockinaway]

Yes I am using the current window URL. However, how do I exclude the stuff after # in the URL using window.location.search? (i'm reading up on it now but posting in case!)

[rockinaway]

Done it, thanks!. I used the following:

 

var url = window.location.search.slice(window.location.search.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');