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On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:31:17 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> How do I go about parsing a url from the browser location. For example if I have the 
> following url:
> 
> https://mercedissa.tmo.org/cgi-bin/req/sreq_start.pl?sid=EBSCO:buh%20(Via%20SFX)&genre=article&issn=00999660&volume=242&issue=26&date=2003&atitle=S.O.S.%20Africa.&title=Wall%20Street%20Journal%20-%20Eastern%20Edition&spage=A12&aulast=Waal&aufirst=Alex
> 
> As you can see there are elements like volume, genre, date, issue, title, author.....
> 
> How do I parse this to get only the elements mentioned above? Is there a perl module 
> that does this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

You should have a look at the CGI module. It will allow you to do all manner of 
URL/Form parsing, among numerous other web related stuffs.

http://danconia.org

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