Re: Extracting Page Name

[choroba]

in reply to Extracting Page Name

You can use a regular expression. It matches non-slash characters up to the end of the URL.

my ($pagename) = $url =~ m{([^/]+)$};

[JimStone]

Thanks everyone for the quick replies. This regular expression is just what I needed to see what I was doing wrong.

[ww]

... but has a (greedy) failure mode:

C:\>perl -e "my $url = 'http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=9674
+84'; my ($pagename) = $url =~ m{([^/]+)$}; print $pagename;"
index.pl?node_id=967484
C:\>