What they're trying to do is to get seperate the file from the end of the URL, so if the URL is 'http://www.wherever.com/whee/index.html' then $Dir should end up with 'http://www.wherever.com/', and $File as 'whee'

He's trying to do this by matching 'any number of any character' (The (.*) part) followed by a literal / (The \/ part), and then any number of characters which aren't / (The.. err.. ([^\/]*) part. The reason it doesn't get the 'whee' is because it's not actually anchored at the end of the regexp, which I think could cause you some fun bugs in itself with HTML files which aren't in document root..

Ugly ugly ugly! When you're rewriting this have a look at URI::URL which has methods for handling URI manipulation in a nice way.

Update: For some reason my brain read this as handling URLs.. guess this is a good argument for comments. Use the module Roik recommends below if it is files. Sorry

In reply to Re: Perl string matching by Molt
in thread Perl string matching by wizard341

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