Is there a $.url() function?

Is there a $.url() function?


Danged if I can find the thread, but I swear I saw a $.url() reference in here a day or two ago.  It was being utilized for parsing out the window.location or window.location.search parameters.  I made a mental note because that was something I would be needing to do.
 
Now I can't find it, either because the search isn't finding it or I was dreaming about this function existing.
 
Can someone help me out?  I rummaged about the API docs and didn't find it there either.  Is it something provided by one of the plugins and not a function native to jQuery?
 
thanks,
 
Don