Curly Brackets Converted to Hexidecimal when using URL.Document or window.location.href

Question

Would like to take document.URL, find the string with curly brackets, remove the curly brackets, and show just the string that was inside the curly brackets. However, it seems that document.URL or window.location.href convert the curly brackets to hexidecimal values (%7B & %7D) and then I can't match against the actual {string}. Any help would be appreciated.

  var txt = document.URL; // My URL is something like http://site.com/somepage&value0={string}
  var re1='.*?';    // Non-greedy match on filler
  var re2='(\\{.*?\\})';    // Curly Braces 1

  var p = new RegExp(re1+re2,["i"]);
  var m = p.exec(txt);

  if (m != null)
  {
      var cbraces1=m[1];
      document.write(cbraces1.replace("{","").replace("}",""));
  }

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 21 '11 at 05:30

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Use decodeURI(document.URL) first.

var txt = decodeURI(document.URL);

edited Jul 21 '11 at 05:30

mu is too short

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answered Jul 21 '11 at 05:13

Ghostoy

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Thank you! I also figured out that I could just find the %7B and %7D string. – Usman Jul 21 '11 at 05:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '11 at 05:04

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unescape('%7B & %7D');

this should help

answered Jul 21 '11 at 05:04

Molecular Man

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Curly Brackets Converted to Hexidecimal when using URL.Document or window.location.href

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