Hello. I am coming from JS world and want to ask two things: 1. how to replace / from start string? ...

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[Jasmin Fajkic]

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&id=bam. Want to have search params like boom:true , id: bam?

[Landry Norris]

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

[ephemient]

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.

[ephemient]

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

[Jasmin Fajkic]

need it in android project

[Francesc]

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

[Jasmin Fajkic]

thx guys fixed it.