How to parse URL parameters in Clojure?

Assuming you want to parse HTTP request query parameters, why not use ring? ring.middleware.params contains what you want.

The function for parameter extraction goes like this:

(defn- parse-params
  "Parse parameters from a string into a map."
  [^String param-string encoding]
  (reduce
    (fn [param-map encoded-param]
      (if-let [[_ key val] (re-matches #"([^=]+)=(.*)" encoded-param)]
        (assoc-param param-map
          (codec/url-decode key encoding)
          (codec/url-decode (or val "") encoding))
         param-map))
    {}
    (string/split param-string #"&")))

Using form-decode and keywordize-keys:

(use 'ring.util.codec)
(use 'clojure.walk)

(keywordize-keys (form-decode "hello=world&foo=bar"))

{:foo "bar", :hello "world"}