JQuery How to extract value from href tag?

Question

I am new to JQuery.

If I have the following tag. What is the best JQuery method to extract the value for "page" from the href.

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Malcolm

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/872217/jquery-how-to-extract-value-from-href-tag

Answer 1

The first thing that comes to my mind is a one-liner regex:

var pageNum = $("#specificLink").attr("href").match(/page=([0-9]+)/)[1];