Re: Regex for extracting a domain name from a string.

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Re^2: Regex for extracting a domain name from a string. by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Feb 28, 2008 at 03:45 UTC
Indeed. My take on the matter is ... what this person wants to get is: “this-or-that part of ‘a domain name.’” And it so happens that the “obvious way” to get there is... “well, (obviously) I have to (figure out how to) write a regular expression” before I'll be able to “get that.” And I'm reaching over and hitting the Pause button and saying... “oh, really?” I'll bet that there's a very good CPAN-module already out there which will give you the answer that you want. I'll wager that in fact you don't have to tackle regular-expressions in order to get the result you want, because somebody out there has already done it and has done it very well. Dictum Ne Agas — “Do Not Do A Thing Already Done.”
Re^3: Regex for extracting a domain name from a string. by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Feb 28, 2008 at 03:51 UTC
For the "this or that part", they need a different module which can extract the parts like host, path, query string, port etc. etc. Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...	[reply]
Re^2: Regex for extracting a domain name from a string. by jnbek (Scribe) on Feb 28, 2008 at 05:37 UTC
Thank you for pointing me to the modules, I think those will work great. Between URI::Find and URI::Find::Schemeless I 'should' be able to get done what I need. I'll let you know my results. Thanks, jnbek	[reply]