⭐ in reply to How do you extract the server from a URL?

Use the URI module.

use URI;
my $url = 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl';
my $uri = URI->new($url);
my $server = $uri->host;
print "URL: $url\n";
print "Server: $server\n";

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