Re: Regex to Truncate URLs Nicely

Do use URI. That said:

my $maxlen = 35;
s![?].*$!!; # chop query params if any
s{^(.*)(?=/[^/]/?)}{length $1 < $maxlen ? $1 : substr($1, 0, $maxlen-3
+)."..."}e;
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Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Re: Regex to Truncate URLs Nicely by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Nov 02, 2002 at 11:05 UTC
Neat, thank you. One question: `s![?].*$!!;` [download] Why is the query in brackets there? -- `($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Regex to Truncate URLs Nicely by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 02, 2002 at 11:42 UTC
Cause it has to be escaped outside: `s!\?.$!!;` The bracketed version occasionally looks less noisy. That's all. Makeshifts last the longest.*	[reply] [d/l]