[ic] help pulling info from URL

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

>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/;

Thanks Kevin!

- Grant