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in reply to match the urls

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;

my @urls = qw<
    https://www.abc.com/ap/ap/top-news/76/nTk3M/
    https://www.abc.com/videos/news/eye-catching/vmxJr
    https://www.abc.com/ap/top/45/state-political-news/fgdfgd
    https://www.abc.com/ap/ap/top-news/
    https://www.abc.com/
>;

for (@urls)
{
    m{
        ^ https://www\.abc\.com/   # correct stem
        (?: .+? / ){3}             # non-greedy string then slash x 3
        .+                         # at least one other character
    }x
    
        ? say("MATCH: $_")
        : say("NOT:   $_")
}

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perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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