Okay, admittedly I am not the greatest with regexs but I should have been able to figure this out. In short I am using LWP to download images on a page and then I have Image::Magick resizing them. My problem comes when I have an image to download that is relative to the URL for instance:

The page I want to "spider" is at

http://www.domain.com/...s/that/whatever.html

The tags on that page look like this:

<img src="../image.gif">

Basically I need a regex to take

http://www.domain.com/...s/that/whatever.html

and turn it into

http://www.domain.com/1/two/this/

so the image can be grabbed. Like I said, I am terrible with regexes so this is probably something simple...

I'm a little confused as to what you are trying to do. So you want to grab the HTML from a page, and get the image name. Then download that image, and resize it locally on your server?

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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$url =~ s|(.*/).*/.*\.html|$1|;

not sure if this is best, but it works with greedy nature

Im not sure he means that. He wants to take the document URL and work out the full path, based on the relative path in order to find the image.

m{^http://({^/:]+(:(\d+))?)(/.*)?$

Will get you this
host is $1 #like mydomain.com
port is $3 # like 80 or nothing(assumed 80)
path is $4 #like /root/relative/path

Not sure if that will help you but you should be able to put some logic around what comes back in $4