jQuery: How to get parameters of a url?

Question

New to jQuery and I\'m having trouble getting the parameters of a url that my server generates. I have a url like this:

Answer 1

function getURLParameter(name) {
    return decodeURI(
        (RegExp(name + '=' + '(.+?)(&|$)').exec(location.search)||[,null])[1]
    );
}