From 5a8f7cf54e4ee37e0831389313daaa1e885ccf5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Hansen <rhansen@rhansen.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:18:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] test runner: Simplify `getURLParameter()`

---
 tests/frontend/runner.js | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/frontend/runner.js b/tests/frontend/runner.js
index 982156902..616c065b3 100644
--- a/tests/frontend/runner.js
+++ b/tests/frontend/runner.js
@@ -154,12 +154,7 @@ $(() => {
     });
   };
 
-  // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1403888/get-url-parameter-with-jquery
-  const getURLParameter = function (name) {
-    return decodeURI(
-        (RegExp(`${name}=(.+?)(&|$)`).exec(location.search) || [null, null])[1]
-    );
-  };
+  const getURLParameter = (name) => (new URLSearchParams(location.search)).get(name);
 
   // get the list of specs and filter it if requested
   const specs = specs_list.slice();
@@ -179,7 +174,7 @@ $(() => {
   helper.init(() => {
     // configure and start the test framework
     const grep = getURLParameter('grep');
-    if (grep !== 'null') {
+    if (grep != null) {
       mocha.grep(grep);
     }