Re: A better way? Extracting filename from url

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What's wrong with using the nice URI module?

use URI;

while (<DATA>) {
    my $file = (URI->new($_)->path_segments)[-1];
    print $file, "\n";    
}

__DATA__
http://www.spied.co.nz/thinmailer.cgi
http://www.site.com/dir/file.html?param1=val1&param2=val2
[download]

gav^

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Re: Re: A better way? Extracting filename from url by theorbtwo (Prior) on Jan 14, 2002 at 21:01 UTC
This sounds like the best way to me. Don't forget to uri_unescape() (or whatever it's called; I don't quite recall) the filename part to deal with stuff like "file%20name.htm". Thanks, James Mastros, Just Another Perl Scribe	[reply]

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