Re: Stripping http:// from a string variable

HI Rich,

Actually the code is working as it should.  The problem is that I had not
considered that there would be URLs that would have characters in them that
would not be legal in a file name on a UNIX server.  Such as "/".  I see
that now I have to strip everything from the first instance of the "/" to
the end of the string.  That will be another good exercise.  Regular
Expressions are not my strong point.

Jan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Bowen" <rbowen(at)rcbowen.com>
To: "Jan Morell" <janman(at)n-jcenter.com>
Cc: "HWG-Languages" <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: Stripping http:// from a string variable


> Jan Morell wrote:
> >
> > I have a string variable which contains a URL including the "http://".
I
> > want to strip the "http://" from the variable.  This is in a Perl
script.
> > Example:  Change "http://my.com" to "my.com"
> >
> > I have tried this with no success.
> >
> > $URL =~ s/(^http:\/\/)//;
> >
> > Jan
>
> Hmm. What you have there should work, except that the ( ) are not
> necessary. For added readability, perhaps you can try:
>
> $URL =~ s!^http://!!;
>
> When you say "no success", is the string not modified at all? Perhaps
> you should add a i on the end of that - maybe the string is really
> HTTP... rather than http...
>
> $URL =~ s!^http://!!i;
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Rich
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>

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