title: How to get the parameter value from URL in Jquery?
body: <p>Hi all i have an url where i need to get an parameter from the url</p>
  
  <pre><code>   var URL="http://localhost:17775/Students/199/Kishore"
     //here from the url i need to get the value 199
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this is what i had been trying but the value is null here </p>
  
  <pre><code>  function getURLParameter(name) { 
      return parent.decodeURI((parent.RegExp(name + /([^\/]+)(?=\.\w+$)/).exec(parent.location.href) || [, null])[1]); 
    };
  
    $(document).ready(function() {
       getURLParameter("Students");
       //i need to get the value 199 from the url
    });
  </code></pre>