Hi harangzsolt33,

As others have pointed out, the first argument to split is a regular expression. So to protect against special characters you could do something like split(quotemeta($PATTERN), $STRING, 2); (see quotemeta).

However, you don't need to parse URLs by hand, there's the URI module:

my @urls = (
    "file:///c:/html/testing.html?P1=123&P2=%28%28BLAH+BLAH+BLAH%29%29
+",
    "http://www.cnn.org/g/ar.shtml?c=123055&s=%28Top+Stories+%29",
    "http://www.something.com/example/article.php?P1=123&P2=%28%28DATA
++GOES+HERE%29%29%0D%0A#PGTOP",
);
use URI;
for my $url (@urls) {
    my $u = URI->new($url);
    print "$u\n";
    my @q = $u->query_form;
    print "\t\"$_\"\n" for @q;
}

__END__

file:///c:/html/testing.html?P1=123&P2=%28%28BLAH+BLAH+BLAH%29%29
    "P1"
    "123"
    "P2"
    "((BLAH BLAH BLAH))"
http://www.cnn.org/g/ar.shtml?c=123055&s=%28Top+Stories+%29
    "c"
    "123055"
    "s"
    "(Top Stories )"
http://www.something.com/example/article.php?P1=123&P2=%28%28DATA+GOES
++HERE%29%29%0D%0A#PGTOP
    "P1"
    "123"
    "P2"
    "((DATA GOES HERE))
"

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Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re: RegExp error PLEASE HELP! by haukex
in thread RegExp error PLEASE HELP! by harangzsolt33

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