Question

I’m getting the following response from a server in the form of a String…

value_one=3342342&value_two=456344445&value_three=235333223

What would be an efficient way to parse this? Everything I can come up with is pretty messy.

Answer 1

Split on ‘&’, loop, split on ‘=’

public static Map<String, String> getQueryMap(String query)
{
    String[] params = query.split("&");
    Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
    for (String param : params)
    {
        String name = param.split("=")[0];
        String value = param.split("=")[1];
        map.put(name, value);
    }
    return map;
}