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### querystring 3.1.1

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    // @TODO this looks like we are requiring the user to extract the querystring
    // portion of the url, which isn't good.  The majority use case will be to
    // extract querystring from the document configured for this YUI instance.
    // This should be the default if qs is not supplied.

    /*global Y */
    /**
     * <p>Provides Y.QueryString.stringify method for converting objects to Query Strings.
     * This is a simpler implementation than the full querystring-stringify.</p>
     * <p>Because some things may require basic query string escaping functionality,
     * this module provides the bare minimum functionality (decoding a hash of simple values),
     * without the additional support for arrays, objects, and so on.</p>
     * <p>This provides a friendly way to deserialize basic query strings, without necessitating
     * a lot of code for simple use-cases.</p>
     *
     * @module querystring
     * @submodule querystring-parse-simple
     * @for QueryString
     * @static
     */

    var QueryString = Y.namespace("QueryString");

    /**
     * Provides Y.QueryString.parse method to accept Query Strings and return native
     * JavaScript objects.
     *
     * @module querystring
     * @submodule querystring-parse
     * @for QueryString
     * @static
     */
    QueryString.parse = function (qs, sep, eq) {
        sep = sep || "&";
        eq = eq || "=";
        for (
            var obj = {},
                i = 0,
                pieces = qs.split(sep),
                l = pieces.length,
                tuple;
            i < l;
            i ++
        ) {
            tuple = pieces[i].split(eq);
            if (tuple.length > 0) {
                obj[QueryString.unescape(tuple.shift())] = QueryString.unescape(tuple.join(eq));
            }
        }
        return obj;
    };

    /**
     * Provides Y.QueryString.unescape method to be able to override default decoding
     * method.  This is important in cases where non-standard delimiters are used, if
     * the delimiters would not normally be handled properly by the builtin
     * (en|de)codeURIComponent functions.
     * Default: replace "+" with " ", and then decodeURIComponent behavior.
     * @module querystring
     * @submodule querystring-parse
     * @for QueryString
     * @static
     **/
    QueryString.unescape = function (s) {
        return decodeURIComponent(s.replace(/\+/g, ' '));
    };

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