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Hello. I am coming from JS world and want to ask two things:
1. how to replace / from start string? i have path /path/something and want to remove first slash. Tried with `path.replace("/^\\/|\\/\$/g".toRegex(), "")`  does not work.
2. what is easiest way to get search params as key value pair. /path/something?boom=true&amp;id=bam. Want to have search params like boom:true , id: bam? 

For the first question, you can use `path.trimStart('/')` , which will remove all slashes at the start of the string.

or `path.removePrefix("/")` to remove just one. the problem with your code is that you are including the `/` delimiters. you would have the same issue if you wrote `RegExp("/^\\/|\\/\$/g")` in JS too.

for 2, it depends; what environment are you in? in Kotlin/JS you can use the same `URLSearchParams` class that exists in JS. on Kotlin/JVM there's a few options

for Android, you are probably better off converting this to a Uri and then using the parse tools provided by that class. See this <https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/Uri>