[ic] help pulling info from URL

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Grant)]

>On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:08:54 -0500
>Duncan McGreggor <oubiwann@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, one of perl's mottos is that there's more than one way to do it...
>> here's one elementary way:
>> 
>> $last_url = '[data session last_url]';
>> @parts = split("/", $last_url);
>> # position 0 should be nothing
>> # position 1 should be "category"
>> # position 2 should be "posters"
>> # position 3 should be "p1.html"
>> $pstn2 = $parts[2];
>> $pstn3 = $parts[3];
>
>And here a shorter way to do it (also untested):
>
>($pstn2, $pstn3) = (split("/", $Session->{last_url})[2,3];
>
>Ciao
>        Racke

I set this up:

[perl] ($pstn2, $pstn3) = (split("/", $Session->{last_url})[2,3]; [/perl]
[scratch pstn2], [scratch pstn3]

but it returns nothing.  What am I screwing up?

- Grant