.split() not working as expected in IE8

Question

I\'m using the following to extract variables from a URL contained in a variable. It works fine in modern browsers but in IE8 it fails on the first variable but succeeds on

Answer 1

You can find both dimensions with a match or exec expression:

var p = 'http://sagensundesign.com?height=400&width=300';

var siz=p.match(/((height|width)=)(\d+)/g);


alert(siz)

/*  returned value: (Array)
height=400, width=300
*/