How to efficiently remove a query string by Key fr

Question

How to remove a query string by Key from a Url?

I have the below method which works fine but just wondering is there any better/shorter way? or a built-in .NET method which can do it more efficiently?

 public static string RemoveQueryStringByKey(string url, string key)
        {
            var indexOfQuestionMark = url.IndexOf("?");
            if (indexOfQuestionMark == -1)
            {
                return url;
            }

            var result = url.Substring(0, indexOfQuestionMark);
            var queryStrings = url.Substring(indexOfQuestionMark + 1);
            var queryStringParts = queryStrings.Split(new [] {'&'});
            var isFirstAdded = false;

            for (int index = 0; index <queryStringParts.Length; index++)
            {
                var keyValue = queryStringParts[index].Split(new char[] { '=' });
                if (keyValue[0] == key)
                {
                    continue;
                }

                if (!isFirstAdded)
                {
                    result += "?";
                    isFirstAdded = true;
                }
                else
                {
                    result += "&";
                }

                result += queryStringParts[index];
            }

            return result;
        }

For example I can call it like:

  Console.WriteLine(RemoveQueryStringByKey(@"http://www.domain.com/uk_pa/PostDetail.aspx?hello=hi&xpid=4578", "xpid"));

Hope the question is clear.

Thanks,

Answer 1

var qs = System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(queryString);
var str = qs.Get(key);

This helper class also has Set methods.