Posted by Toby Inkster on 05/28/06 12:39

scole954387 wrote:

> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/15324461/ref=br_bx_c_1_129/103-6750759-7559044

You don't mention which programming language -- there are tonnes out there
that each support their own idea of regular expressions.

Using Perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$url = 'http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/15324461/ref=br_bx_c_1_129/103-6750759-7559044';
@parts = split(/\//, $url);
$number = $parts[8];
print $number;

Or in PHP, you probably don't even need regular expressions:

<?php
$url = 'http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/15324461/ref=br_bx_c_1_129/103-6750759-7559044';
$parts = explode('/', $url);
$number = $parts[8];
print $number;
?>

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