Wise Monks,

I would like to take a url and seperate it into mutliple parts so I can make a directory structure based on the url. I am still trying to wrap my head around regular expressions and I have also been looking into URI::URL but the answer is eluding me. Here is a little bit of what I have been trying:

use strict;
use URI::URL;

my $a = 'http://www.ash.com/ed/example/one.html';
my $url = URI::URL->new($a);
my $path = $url->fragment();
print "$path \n";

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The above example only gives me the directory part of the url and it is not split.

I have also been trying this: 
my $ENTRY = "http://www.asd.com/123/456/789/";
$ENTRY =~ /http\:\/\/www\.asd\.com\/(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)\\"/;

        my($u_com, $name, $entry) = ($1, $2, $3);
        print "1 $u_com \n";
        print "2 $name \n";
        print "3 $entry \n";

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This would be preferable, but I am not too sure about the regex parts. I think that the (d+) is reserved for just digits so I have also tried the above with (s+)but it does not work. I have been making my way through the Oreilly regular expressions book but I was hoping someone here would be nice enough to point me in the right direction.

Many Thanks,
ghettofinger

In reply to Splitting a url to make directories by ghettofinger

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