use URI; use URI::QueryParam; my $u = URI->new('http://www.com/index.pl?id=&etc'); print $u->query_param('id'), "\n"; #### my $u = URI->new('http://www.com/index.pl?id=&foo=bar&etc'); my @val = grep /<([^>]+)/, map $u->query_param($_), $u->query_param(); print $_,$/ for @val; #### @value = $URL =~ /(<[^>]+>)/;