Javascript snippet to read URL query string parameters

gistfile1.js

var urlParams = {};

//Parse URL parameters
(function () {
    var match,
        pl     = /\+/g,  // Regex for replacing addition symbol with a space
        search = /([^&=]+)=?([^&]*)/g,
        decode = function (s) { return decodeURIComponent(s.replace(pl, " ")); },
        query  = window.location.search.substring(1);

    while (match = search.exec(query))
       urlParams[decode(match[1])] = decode(match[2]);
})();

console.log( urlParams.foo, urlParams.bar );