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Alright

$a =~ s|/browse(/.*/)|$1|i; $a = $1;

That seems to work :), but what if the url conatins '\' instead of '/' like how could I check for both.

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Re: Re: regex help
by fglock (Vicar) on Sep 28, 2002 at 05:07 UTC

    '\' or '/' is written like tihs:

    [\\\/] 
   or:
[\/\\] 
   so you get:
$a =~ s|[\/\\]browse([\/\\].*[\/\\])|$1|i;

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