[ic] help pulling info from URL

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Stefan Hornburg)]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 08:29:57 -0800
"Grant" <listbox@email.com> wrote:

> 
> >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?

First, one paren is missing.

Second, no program in the world can read your thoughts. Why should the Perl variables
automagically appear in the scratch namespace ? Try:

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

Ciao
      Racke