When parsing with `comma: true`, params with a single or no value return a string rather than as an array. Is there an option to always return an array?

I looked at the docs and issues but I am not sure if there is an option built into qs that could do this.

Given a query string like:

?a=1&b=2,3&c=

When parsing with comma: true, the result is:

{
  a: "1",
  b: ["2", "3"]
  c: ""
}

What I want is a and c to be an array format instead. Is there an option to always return an array when parsing?

[TimeDropsSB]

In my use case, yes, I want everything as an array because, using the query example I mentioned, a and c do take comma-separated values. Therefore, having keys which are all normalized to the same type - string[] - makes data manipulation ib the Javascript side much easier. All of this, of course, with the necessity that none of the params are suffixed with [].

Ultimately, what I was hoping was that qs had a built-in option to simply convert each one to a string array so that I don’t have to do the normalizing myself. Given your answer, I think it makes sense why qs wouldn’t have a built-in method for such.

[ljharb]

You can do [].concat(arrayOrString) whenever you need to ensure you have an array, but yes i think you need to do that normalization yourself.