perl problem

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    i need to extract users from link example:
    website/users/wpbuzz/gigs/invite-all-my-facebook-friends-5000-to-join-your-groupfanpage-up-to-5-invites

    users that i need to receive is wpbuzz i want to use perl with regular expressions .
     
    ssimon171078, Jul 29, 2014 IP
  2. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    How far through the script process are you?
    Which bit is giving you errors and what are the errors?
     
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    NetStar Notable Member

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    Extract username from URL?

    
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

my $url = qq{website/users/wpbuzz/gigs/invite-all-my-facebook-friends-5000-to-join-your-groupfanpage-up-to-5-invites};

$url  =~ m#website/users/(.*)/gigs#i;
my $user = $1;

print $user;
    Code (markup):
     
    NetStar, Aug 2, 2014 IP