StringTokenizer - first string?

Question

I have this code to parse url string such as "?var=val" but when "search" is just "var=val" this code fails, how to make just "var=val" work as well?

    StringTokenizer st1 =
    new StringTokenizer(search, "?&;");
    while(st1.hasMoreTokens()){
        String st2= st1.nextToken();

        int ii = st2.indexOf("=");
        if (ii > 0) {
            int ib = st2.length();
            myparms.put( st2.substring(0,ii) , st2.substring(ii+1,ib) );
        }
    }

Answer 1

if (search.charAt(0)!= '?') search = "?"+search;

Answer 2

As a side note, StringTokenizer has been deprecated and is only included now as a legacy class, you should take a look at String.split(), instead.