I'm trying to capture some information from some URLs so that I can store the downloaded data into directories that make some sense.

The type of URL's I'm downloading the data from are as follows: 

http://www.domain.com/data/2005/sales/01012005.txt
http://www.domain.com/data/2005/sales-jan/01232005.txt
http://www.domain.com/data/2005/sales-local/01012005.txt
http://www.domain.com/data/2005/sales-outside-jan/01012005.txt
...
...

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What I want to extract from this is:

sales
sales-jan
sales-local
sales-outside-jan
...
...

The regex I have come up with to extract the information is: 

$dir = $1 if /\/(\w+(|-\w+|-\w+-\w+))\/\w+\.txt$/;

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This regex appears to be working correctly. My question is am I going about it the right way? Could I have shortened the regex somehow?

Thanks,
Mike

Update: Corrected typo in regex that GrandFather found.

Thanks GrandFather and ikegami for the suggestions. Yes, I should have used a different delimiter, the leaning toothpicks are confusing. I understand GrandFather's suggestion, but I'll have to study ikegami's suggestion a bit. Thanks!

Update II: Thanks to all for the great responses / ideas. Thanks to davidrw & YuckFoo for their suggestions on the split. Frankly I hadn't even thought of that. I became so wrapped up in the regex to get the directory, I hadn't even thought about the filename yet. Clearly a case of not seeing the forest for the trees.

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