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

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

This works well:

public static string RemoveQueryStringByKey(string url, string key)
{                   
    var uri = new Uri(url);

    // this gets all the query string key value pairs as a collection
    var newQueryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(uri.Query);

    // this removes the key if exists
    newQueryString.Remove(key);

    // this gets the page path from root without QueryString
    string pagePathWithoutQueryString = uri.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Path);

    return newQueryString.Count > 0
        ? String.Format("{0}?{1}", pagePathWithoutQueryString, newQueryString)
        : pagePathWithoutQueryString;
}

an example:

RemoveQueryStringByKey("https://www.google.co.uk/search?#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=cookie", "q");

and returns:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab