Hello Monks,

I have this problem: I have got a web app but I need to run it from normal user accounts instead of the webroot. For example, instead of going to http://server.com/cgi-bin/app.pl the user must go to http://server.com/~username/cgi-bin/app.pl
Since this code will be migrated around a lot, to a lot of different kinds of systems, I need a good way of finding the username to put in the url (for linking to other pages in the app).

Thankfully, I have got two scalars from which this information can be extracted. I have one that holds the path to a directory in the user's cgi-bin directory and another that holds the path to a directory inside of the user's public_html (or whatever it is called) directory.

Finally, getting to the question at hand.
How would you extract "username" from these examples:

  • /home/username/public_html/cgi-bin/dir and /home/username/public_html/directory
  • /Users/people/username/html/cgi-bin/directory and /Users/people/username/html/dirrr
  • /Home/username/public/cgi-bin/place and /Home/username/public/directory
  • /export/home/username/www/cgi-bin/dir and /export/home/username/www/directory
    I hope you get the idea....

    I haven't the slightest clue where to start beyond comparing the two strings and seeing where they differ, and removing those..... I am just really unsure.


    jcpunk
    all code is tested, and doesn't work so there :p (varient on common PM sig for my own ammusment)

    In reply to Matching a string that you do not have any really good information about by jcpunk

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