On Jun 4, David Gilden said:
>Is version 2 a better choice here?
>$name= "bill_gates_the_third_132506042001.html";
> $name =~ s/^(\w+?)_(\d+).html$/$1/;
> $name =~ tr/_/ /;
>$name= "bill_gates_the_third_132506042001.html";
> $name =~ s/\d+.html$//;
> $name =~ tr/_/ /;
> $name =~ s/\s$//;
Can't you be pretty sure there won't be any spaces in the URL? And why
not just do
$name =~ s/\s*\d+\.html$//;
then, to remove the spaces at the same time. Or are you afraid of the
newline that might be at the end?
$name =~ s/\s*\d+\.html\n?\z//;
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