In grabbing a webpage from a foreign server I need to modify any relative urls to abosolute.

The code snippet below works but I was wondering if there is a better way.

.....
my ($urltop) = 'http://www.somewhere.com/';
my ($urltodir) = 'http://www.somewhere.com/folder/';

my(@matches) = ($content =~ /href="([^"]*)"/gi);
foreach my $match (@matches) {
        if ($match =~ /^http/i) {
                ## absolute leave alone
    } elsif ($match =~ /^\//) {
        $content =~ s/href="$match"/href="$urltop$match"/gi;
    } else {
        $content =~ s/href="$match"/href="$urltodir\/$match"/gi;
    }
}

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I could do the leading slash stuff with: 
$content =~ s/href="^\/([^"]*)"/href="$urltop/$1"/gi;

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But I can't figure out how to do the other matches without the foreach.

Thanks for any clues
Claude

In reply to Regex question: Is there a better way? by Xxaxx

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