question: public Map < String , String > parse ( final String str , char [ ] separators ) { if ( separators == null || separators . length == 0 ) { return new HashMap < String , String > ( ) ; } char separator = separators [ 0 ] ; if ( str != null ) { int idx = str . length ( ) ; for ( int i = 0 ; i < separators . length ; i ++ ) { int tmp = str . indexOf ( separators [ i ] ) ; if ( tmp != - 1 ) { if ( tmp < idx ) { idx = tmp ; separator = separators [ i ] ; } } } } return parse ( str , separator ) ; }
target:  Extracts a map of name/value pairs from the given string. Names are expected to be unique. Multiple separators may be specified and the earliest found in the input string is used.