Alright Monks, so I made a subroutine that is supposed to break down links into 3 pieces, the domain,the path,and filename. The subroutine works for most urls:

sub createStruct{
    my %song = ();
    my $orig_url = $song{url} = shift;
    my $url = URI->new( "$orig_url" );
    my $domain = $song{domain} = $url->host;
    my @split_url = split('/',$url);
    my $filename = $song{filename} = $split_url[-1]; 
    $orig_url = $url; 
    $orig_url =~ s/$domain//g;
    $orig_url =~ s/$filename//g;
    $orig_url =~ s/http:\/\/|https:\/\/|ftp:\/\///g;
    my $dir = $song{dir} = $orig_url;
    return \%song;
}

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but when I pass this url into the subroutine, it cannot remove the filename from the original url. This is the URL: http://freemp3files.hostoi.com/mp3_6744/Club SoundZ We Vol.15 (2010).mp3 This is the line that doesnt work : $orig_url =~ s/$filename//g; Why cant the filename be removed for this particular url?

In reply to Why cant regex parse this string? by jayto

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