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in thread A better way? Extracting filename from url

It works, but I guess you've also got to consider the possibility that the URL will contain query parameters, like this: http://www.site.com/dir/file.html?param1=val1&param2=val2

So a second substitution (I'm sure you can do it with a lookahead assertion or similar, but that seems a bit overkill) is probably in order:

$file =~ s/\?.*//;

Cheers,
-- moodster

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Re: Re: Re: A better way? Extracting filename from url
by Gerard (Pilgrim) on Jan 15, 2002 at 02:23 UTC
    Moodster has a good point. Thanks all for your comments. To be honest I had not even considered the possiblity of query paramters, which is very silly of me. But hey, it was late. Anway, I can now look at this again a bit later on.
    I am constantly amazed and impressed with the good nature and high value of comments that come out of this site.

    Regards,
    Gerard
    The caffeine addict (now sufficiently supplied).
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