Re^2: Extracting a domain name from a url

Yup, your solution does work for the majority of urls.

For the record, here are some urls that wouldn't be handled properly with your regex:

http://proxy.aol.com:8080/
http://user:pass@yahoo.com/login
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Re^3: Extracting a domain name from a url by abachus (Monk) on Oct 15, 2006 at 23:02 UTC
thanks monks, as always you show light on things i cannot see :)	[reply]
Re^3: Extracting a domain name from a url by ministry (Scribe) on Oct 16, 2006 at 01:10 UTC
This one is one I've been using in production for a while, and seems to hold up well: `my $url="http://proxy.aol.com:8080/login"; my($host)=$url=~/http:\/\/([^\/]+)/;` [download] word! -Ev Update: Sorry, I'm a moe - I forgot to add the point of this post in my example! Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Extracting a domain name from a url by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 16, 2006 at 01:49 UTC
You code fails with the input you gave it. Furthermore, it doesn't work with the other example in the post to which you replied either. `http://proxy.aol.com:8080/` gives `proxy.aol.com:8080` instead of `proxy.aol.com`. `http://user:pass@yahoo.com/login` gives `user:pass@yahoo.com` instead of `yahoo.com`	[reply] [d/l] [select]