You can also do this without a regex, by using split on the ‘/’ character to produce a list, and then subscripting the list to get the desired field:

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $count = 0;

for my $line (<DATA>)
{
    my $name = (split '/', $line)[4];
    print "Name #", ++$count, " is '", $name, "'\n";
}

__DATA__
.co.uk/Jobs/Company-Sector/C8A6446X4PND86M9WYJ/Tradewind/?APath=2.21.0
+.0.0
.com/Stuff/Somewhere/ABCD789/Peabody/?APath=2.0.12.1.3
.com.au/More-Stuff/Anywhere/XYZ12345/Perkins/?APath=4.5.6.7.8

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Output:

 0:14 >perl 390_SoPW.pl
Name #1 is 'Tradewind'
Name #2 is 'Peabody'
Name #3 is 'Perkins'

 0:18 >

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum

In reply to Re: Question on Regex by Athanasius
in thread Question on Regex by Anonymous Monk

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