[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a perl module or else to help read the url below from the
> url location bar in the browser. This url is generated by the
> database vendor, so I have no control over it. I know if it was a
> form it would be easy, but there is no form that I generated. After a
> search is performed in the database and a hit is returned, this url
> is generated and what I am trying is to use perl to read it and parse
> the data. For example:
>
> article: the article title
> author: the article author
>
>
https://www.mercedissa.tzo.com/cgi-bin/req.pl?sid=EBSCO:ecn%20(Via%20SFX)&genre=article&issn=0891-2424&volume=17&issue=2&date=2003&atitle=Contracting%20In:%20How%20a%20Business%20Intermediary%20Sought%20to%20Create%20Supplier%20Networks%20and%20Jobs%20in%20the%20Inner%20City&title=Economic%20development%20quarterly&spage=148&aulast=Weber&aufirst=Rachel
>
> I hope this is clear enough.
Are you wanting to extract the various query fields from this URL? If so,
you can use the URI module:
use URI;
my $u = URI->new('https://www.mercedissa.tzo.com ... blah blah ...');
my %args = $u->query_form;
print $args{title}; # prints "Economic development quarterly"
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