greetings,

 in javascript, i'm trying to pull out pieces of a url via regex. my url looks like this:

http://domain.com/index.html#hash=http://domain.com/index.php?arg=val&arg2=val2&meta=val&meta2=val

I want to be able to extract everything after hash= up until meta=. but i want it to go to meta= if it finds it, meta2 if it doesn't find meta, and until the end of the line if it finds neither of the meta args.

i've tried this, to no avail: string.match( /hash=(.+)(?:&meta=|&meta2=)*/ )

what am i doing wrong? many thanks!

tr