do one thing if you know ruby somewhat
url=ie.url
url_splitted=url.split("?")
puts url_splitted[0] should give you the base url
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:00 PM, ash <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Having searched this group, plus the wiki, plus the mail archives I am
> still a little confused as to the syntax format for stripping text
> from a url. Apologies if there is a thread covering this already but
> I am now getting frustrated with this as it seems such a simple task
> but I can't get my head round it.
>
>
> I have a check in a test to ensure that the url reached is correct but
> there is a variable at the end of the url that I don't need. How do I
> get rid of this?
>
> My url is of the format http://www.blah.com/uk/home.asp?variable
>
> So far I have discovered that the following will possibly help;
> new_url = ie.url[/(.*)\//] although this strips everything after
> "uk/". I just need to strip out "?variable".
>
> My question is really; What does this mean? [/(.*)\//]
>
> Cheers...Ash
> >
>
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Regards,
Alkarim Rayani
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