Please bottom post....
>
> This regex by Rob is working alright, but can't follow exactly how it
> truncates an absolute url from first character to the one before the
> dot.
>
> It returns (.domain4you.com from http:://www. domain4you.com.) exactly
> what is expected, but I can't easily understand it.
>
> Please I'm not pulling anyone's leg. So just explain it if you can.
>
> (.domain4you.com from http:://www. domain4you.com.)
>
>
> foreach (@domains) {
> my $name = $_;
> $name =~ s/^[^\.]+//;
> print $name;
> }
The initial ^ says to start matching at the beginning of the string.
[] defines a character class, so we are going to match against
characters in the class.
In this case the ^ *because it is the first character* of the class
causes the class to be negated, aka we are going to match any character
*not* in the class. The class is a \ and a . though I suspect that
should just be a . because I believe dot inside a class is not special.
The + says one or more of the characters matched by the class.
So it is really saying match one or more characters that are not a dot
starting at the beginning of the string. Or, match everything up until
the first dot.
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