[ic] help pulling info from URL

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Kevin Walsh)]

Grant [listbox@email.com] wrote:
> >
> > [perl]
> >     @{$Scratch}{'pstn2','pstn3'} = (split('/',$Session->{last_url}))[2,3];
> >     $Scratch->{pstn3} =~ s/(.*?)\.html?/$1/;
> > [/perl]
> >
> > [scratch pstn2], [scratch pstn3]
> >
> Thanks Ryan, that removes the .html put not the p.  I need just the number.
> I need to turn "p1.html" into just "1" or "p99.html" into "99".  Almost
> there....
> 
You could strip all non-numerics with:

    $Scratch->{pstn3} =~ s/\D//g;

That will turn "p123.html" into "123" but will also turn "1p234a56.html"
into "123456".

If your format is specifically "character + numeric(s) + characters"
then you could use this:

    $Scratch->{pstn3} =~ s/^\D(\d+).*/$1/;

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