jQuery.parseParams - parse query string paramaters into an object (jshint compatible)

jquery.parseparams.js

/**
 * $.parseParams - parse query string paramaters into an object.
 */
 /*jshint regexp: false */
(function($) {
var re = /([^&=]+)=?([^&]*)/g;
var decodeRE = /\+/g;  // Regex for replacing addition symbol with a space
var decode = function (str) { return decodeURIComponent( str.replace(decodeRE, " ") ); };
$.parseParams = function(query) {
    var params = {}, e;
    while ( (e = re.exec(query)) )
    {
        params[decode(e[1])] = decode(e[2]);
    }
    return params;
};
})(jQuery);