Re: need help cleaning up a search

On Jan 26, 8:46 pm, webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (FamiLink Admin) wrote:
Hello all,

I am using the following to pull a search query from a google search:

( my $search1 ) = $url =~ /q=(.*)/;
my $search = (split '&', $search1)[0];

If the search looks at this string:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+erika+michelle+barre&btnG=Googl...

Then my search = +erika+michelle+barre

How would I chop off any funny characters (+, %, -, ...) from the front of
the results (and off the end for that mater)

Sometimes there are even +++ before the text I need to get.

Don't re-invent the wheel, URI and URI::QueryParam are core modules.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use URI;
use URI::QueryParam;

my $url =
URI->new(q{http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+erika+michelle+barre&btnG=Google+Search});

printf "Search string: '%s'\n", $url->query_param('q');

__END__

-jp

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