From e7861ec5d432638b2d4b722f3e60700c105015e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabio Caccamo <fabio.caccamo@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 15:08:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improved QueryStringSerializer regex.

---
 benedict/serializers/query_string.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/benedict/serializers/query_string.py b/benedict/serializers/query_string.py
index aeed4ab..7161c3b 100644
--- a/benedict/serializers/query_string.py
+++ b/benedict/serializers/query_string.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class QueryStringSerializer(AbstractSerializer):
 
     def decode(self, s, **kwargs):
         flat = kwargs.pop('flat', True)
-        qs_re = r'^(([\w\-\%\+]+\=[\w\-\%\+]*)+([\&]{1})?)+'
+        qs_re = r'(?:([\w\-\%\+\.\|]+\=[\w\-\%\+\.\|]*)+(?:[\&]{1})?)+'
         qs_pattern = re.compile(qs_re)
         if qs_pattern.match(s):
             data = parse_qs(s)