Option to ignore leading '?' in a search string

[jinalskothari]

I use react-router. It exposes a location.search string property. It includes the '?' character in the search string. I could write some code to remove it before I give to qs to parse; however it would be nice if qs could do that.

The api could look like this

var parsedObj = qs.parse('?itemType=theBest&itemCost=1gazillion', {ignoreLeadingQuestion:true})
assert.notEqual(parsedObj, {'?itemType':'theBest', itemCost:'1gazillion'})

[ljharb]

Duplicate of #177.