Hi,
i was wondering, what kind of regex (or split? or both (: ) would i need to use to match "anything.whatever" ? i mean, i want to match the "anything", that ends in .whatever, and return only "anything"..

example:
my @i = "l-12345.in.some.domain.com";

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I want to return only "domain", but only if it ends in .<something> (dot something) (:

PS: I'd also like to find a way to match that pattern, no matter what comes after it.. like 
my @i = "l-12345.in.some.domain.com/blargh/index.html";

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and only return "domain", once again.
thanks!

strfry()

edit mirod: changed the title

In reply to Creating a regex to match part of a URL's domain name (was: pattern matching) by strfry()

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