How to parse a query string into a NameValueCollection in .NET

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I would like to parse a string such as p1=6&p2=7&p3=8 into a NameValueCollection.

What is the most elegant way of doing this when you don't have access to the Page.Request object?

19 Answers

There's a built-in .NET utility for this: HttpUtility.ParseQueryString

// C#
NameValueCollection qscoll = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(querystring);
' VB.NET
Dim qscoll As NameValueCollection = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(querystring)

You may need to replace querystring with new Uri(fullUrl).Query.

HttpUtility.ParseQueryString will work as long as you are in a web app or don't mind including a dependency on System.Web. Another way to do this is:

NameValueCollection queryParameters = new NameValueCollection();
string[] querySegments = queryString.Split('&');
foreach(string segment in querySegments)
{
   string[] parts = segment.Split('=');
   if (parts.Length > 0)
   {
      string key = parts[0].Trim(new char[] { '?', ' ' });
      string val = parts[1].Trim();

      queryParameters.Add(key, val);
   }
}
    private void button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e )
    {
        string s = @"p1=6&p2=7&p3=8";
        NameValueCollection nvc = new NameValueCollection();

        foreach ( string vp in Regex.Split( s, "&" ) )
        {
            string[] singlePair = Regex.Split( vp, "=" );
            if ( singlePair.Length == 2 )
            {
                nvc.Add( singlePair[ 0 ], singlePair[ 1 ] );    
            }    
        }
    }

Just access Request.QueryString. AllKeys mentioned as another answer just gets you an array of keys.

Hit up Request.QueryString.Keys for a NameValueCollection of all query string parameters.

let search = window.location.search;

console.log(search);

let qString = search.substring(1);

while(qString.indexOf("+") !== -1)

   qString  = qString.replace("+", "");

let qArray = qString.split("&");

let values = [];

for(let i = 0; i < qArray.length; i++){
   let pos = qArray[i].search("=");
   let keyVal = qArray[i].substring(0, pos);
   let dataVal = qArray[i].substring(pos + 1);
   dataVal = decodeURIComponent(dataVal);
   values[keyVal] = dataVal;
}

This is my code, I think it's very useful:

public String GetQueryString(string ItemToRemoveOrInsert = null, string InsertValue = null )
{
    System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection filtered = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection(Request.QueryString);
    if (ItemToRemoveOrInsert != null)
    {
        filtered.Remove(ItemToRemoveOrInsert);
        if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(InsertValue))
        {
            filtered.Add(ItemToRemoveOrInsert, InsertValue);
        }
    }

    string StrQr = string.Join("&", filtered.AllKeys.Select(key => key + "=" + filtered[key]).ToArray());
    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(StrQr)){
        StrQr="?" + StrQr;
    }

    return StrQr;
}
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