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Spliting a URL with an un-usual query string

Danni
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Apr 25, 2002, 5:09 PM

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Spliting a URL with an un-usual query string	Can't Post

Ive seam to have gotten a little stuck here. Im trying to reduce the code needed to split a url with strange a strange query string. Heres what im trying to do,

Code

/cmd?var=1&blah=hi+mom 
/cmd/var|1/blah|hi+mom

I need a regular expression to at least split this into

Code

cmd AND (var=1&blah=hi+mom OR var|1/blah|hi+mom)

Any clues?

Kanji
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May 10, 2002, 10:12 PM

Post #2 of 2 (2129 views)

Re: [Danni] Spliting a URL with an un-usual query string [In reply to]	Can't Post

There are a few ways you could do this, the easiest would be to use a regular expression ...

Code

my($cmd,$rest) = $string =~ m/^\W(\w)\W(.*)$/;

However, that's very forgiving in what would work (ie, you could use :cmd:var|1/blah|hi+mom or "cmd"var?1:blah and it would still carve the string up appropriately), so you might want something a little more restrictive...

Code

my($cmd,$rest) = $string =~ m<^/([^/?]+)[/?](.*)$>;

--k.

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