sindresorhus/query-string

Lack of symmetry between parse and stringify

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#295 opened on Nov 10, 2020

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Description

stringify(parse('?%20&')) yields only &.

Bit of an edge-case I admit, but do we want to be losing this information?

parse('?%20&') yields {"":null," ":null}.

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Investigate the parse and stringify functions to ensure that encoding and decoding are symmetric, focusing on how spaces and special characters are handled.
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