in reply to [SOLVED]Unable to split $ARGV[0] variable. Can it be done?

perl getrequest.pm http://www.google.com

my $url = $ARGV[0];
my ($host)=$url=~/https?:\/\/([^\/]+)/;

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print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."

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