This will work and allows domains like foo-bar to capture which using \w does not. This regex looks to the left of the .com and stops grabbing chars at the first dot or forward slash.

Also note that you assign to @i which is an array rather than $i which is a scalar and what you probably had in mind.

tachyon 

my $i = "l-12345.in.some.domain.com/blargh/index.html";
my ($result) = $i =~ m|([^./]+)\.com|;
print $result;

# if you want to allow several endings like .com .gov etc

my ($result) = $i =~ m#([^./]+)\.(?:com|org|gov|edu|etc)#;

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

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