I have a project in which i have to download a few files using a perl script and then mail it. For Emailing the File i am using Email::Send and Email::MIME. The script is more or less ready, but i have a small problem.

The URLs are specified in a text file.

The problem is that every time i download a file, i have to specify the name by which it is to be saved along with the URL. What I want to do is that whenever a file is to be downloaded, the name should be extracted from the URL only.

e.g. if URL is www.abcd.com/search or www.efgh.in#found

The file should be saved by the name of (www.abcd.com.ppt) or (www.efgh.in.doc)

The code is posted below. Please help me out.

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  
  use warnings;
  use LWP::Simple;
  use Tie::File;
  
  my $testfolder = "/Users/Apurv/Desktop/";
  
  tie @file, 'Tie::File', $testfolder . "file1.txt" or die;
  
  foreach $URL (@file)
  {
  my $name   = substr $URL, 29, 13;
  my $add    = substr $URL, 0, 29;
  my $file   = $testfolder . "$name";
  my $status = mirror($add,$file);
  die "Cannot retrieve $add" unless is_success($status);
  
  
  .
  .
  . {Mailing Part code}
  
  
  }

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Here I was manually specifying the Name along with the text file.

I found out that I can use Split. But being a newbie to perl programming, could not understand it properly.

In reply to Split Help by keeper12

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