Rob Dixon: > Can somebody suggest how I might resolve the following? > If I make a GET request to a server with a URL like > http::/ww.domain.com/path/path/name > [... ordinary programming question ...] I must be on the wrong list. See, I thought this was fun-with-perl, and boring programming questions just aren't fun. Even so, we've had nothing but this sort of thing for the past two months or so. I suggest we have some more fun. Here's a piece of fun I came up with the other day. Who can work out how it works? use Ruby; $x = 10; print $x; # 10 $x++; $x.puts; # 11 $x.class.puts; # Fixnum $x.class.class.puts; # Class $x->upto(20, sub { $_.puts }); # 11, 12, 13, .. 20 $y = "Hello, world"; $y->puts; # Hello, world $y.class.puts; # String $y->length.puts; # 12 No source filters, XS or any other Deep Magic is involved. It's all pure Perl. -- <quidity> Sometimes it's better not to pedant.