Object.extend(String.prototype, {
  stripTags: function() {
    return this.replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '');
  },

  escapeHTML: function() {
    var div = document.createElement('div');
    var text = document.createTextNode(this);
    div.appendChild(text);
    return div.innerHTML;
  },

  unescapeHTML: function() {
    var div = document.createElement('div');
    div.innerHTML = this.stripTags();
    return div.childNodes[0] ? div.childNodes[0].nodeValue : '';
  },
  
  toQueryParams: function() {
    var pairs = this.match(/^\??(.*)$/)[1].split('&');
    return pairs.inject({}, function(params, pairString) {
      var pair = pairString.split('=');
      params[pair[0]] = pair[1];
      return params;
    });
  },
  
  toArray: function() {
    return this.split('');
  },
  
  camelize: function() {
    var oStringList = this.split('-');
    if (oStringList.length == 1) return oStringList[0];
      
    var camelizedString = this.indexOf('-') == 0
      ? oStringList[0].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + oStringList[0].substring(1) 
      : oStringList[0];
      
    for (var i = 1, len = oStringList.length; i < len; i++) {
      var s = oStringList[i];
      camelizedString += s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
    }
    
    return camelizedString;
  },

  inspect: function() {
    return "'" + this.replace('\\', '\\\\').replace("'", '\\\'') + "'";
  }
});

String.prototype.parseQuery = String.prototype.toQueryParams;