Re: Extracting hostname from URI column

Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:

> Plain regex.... The key are the parenthesis () ...
> basically it will omit ANYTHING + two slashes at the beginning
> of a string.  Then it will match everything BUT a slash, and as
> much of that as possible since regex are greedy by default
> (hence the host name he was looking for) ... and everything
> AFTER a slash will be omitted.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrej
> 
> 
Thanks - that makes a bit more sense. I'm in the middle of reading 
chapter 9.3.7 of the manual - POSIX Regular Expressions - which I'm 
assuming is dealing with this, so it's looking clearer.

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Paul Lambert
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