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I am able to get the querystring from url like this using regex and javascript: But I need to get rid of these %22...these don't show up in IE, just in FF..How do I do that? Ineeed everything after k=..but without %22..

 <script type="text/javascript">document.write('<div class="DynamicSearchTitle">
Showing All Results For ' +  
location.href.match(/\&k\=(.+)/)[1]+ ' Matches </div>'); 
</script>

URL

http://mysite/sites/dev/contact-us/Pages/LocationSearchTestPage.aspx?s=bcs_locations&k=%22Hospital%22%20OR%20%22Office%22

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URL doesn't work. "Page Not Found". – Alex Feb 26 '12 at 21:14
why would you need the URL to work? I just included sample URL..the real url is not live yet.. – Anjana Sharma Feb 26 '12 at 21:18
Stop using spaces and strange characters in your querystring and you should be golden? – adeneo Feb 26 '12 at 21:19
I wish I could do that! Strange world of Sharepoint has weird ways to get things done :) – Anjana Sharma Feb 26 '12 at 21:22
Note that you can extract the query string more conveniently using location.search. – Neil Feb 26 '12 at 21:56

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The URL is broken so I can't take a look at the whole code, but I think what you're looking for is the decodeURI-function.

decodeURI("%22")

for example would return "

Unescapeing the url from your question:

decodeURI("&k=%22Hospital%22%20OR%20%22Office%22");

returns &k="Hospital" OR "Office"

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unescape is bad. It does not work for non-ASCII characters. -1 for w3schools reference. – shiplu.mokadd.im Feb 26 '12 at 21:22
edited and thanks for the info, wasn't aware of that! – Alex Feb 26 '12 at 21:28
Thank you sir! Worked great! – Anjana Sharma Feb 26 '12 at 21:32
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You can get all the Query String component by simple JS function described here

Use it like this,

var uparts = getUrlParts(location.href);
var the_K = uparts["k"];
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