Remove plus sign (+) in URL query string

Question

I am trying get the string in the following URL to display on my webpage.

http://example.com?ks4day=Friday+September+13th

EDIT: The date in the URL

Answer 1

Parsing strings using regex is often prone to so many errors. Thankfully all modern browsers provide URLSearchParams to handle params from url strings in a proper way:

var params = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
var value = params.get('ks4day');
// "Friday September 13th"

Ps: There is also a good polyfill for old browsers.