Parse domain from a URL

I'm trying to find out if anybody has written a function that will parse just the domain name from a URL. For example, where the URL =

www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/

the function would then return:

www.yahoo.com



Am I crazy, or has somebody written this before? If so, is there some code that I can leverage in finding a solution? Thanks in advance.....



- Eric

Break out the book on SQL functions and read about instr and substr.

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs...s55a.htm#77600

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs...119a.htm#87068

Give it a try on your own first, and tackle it in bits and pieces. Use "select (your use of instr and substr) from dual."

That's what I was looking for! So simple, I looked right over it:

substr(URL , 0, (instr(URL , '/', 1)-1))



Thanks for the inspiration! As a side note, this little application of these functions isn't anywhere on the internet! Somebody might want to pick this up & post it where it can be found again.....



- Eric

Of course, you'll be wanting to test that before using it.

Code:

---

  1  select substr('http://tahiti.oracle.com', 0,
  2  (instr('http://tahiti.oracle.com' , '/', 1)-1))
  3* from dual
SQL> /

SUBST
-----
http:

---

Sorry - forgot to mention that the data feed I'm using this for strips out the 'http://' part of the URL. However, it's a simple fix even if they didn't:

Select substr('http://tahiti.oracle.com/' , 0,
(instr('http://tahiti.oracle.com/' , '/', 1, 3)-1))
from dual


Remember that http://tahiti.oracle.com is actually http://tahiti.oracle.com/ when it's fed out as a URL.



- Eric

Code:

---

SQL> Select substr('http://tahiti.oracle.com/' , 0,
  2  (instr('http://tahiti.oracle.com/' , '/', 1, 3)-1))
  3  from dual
  4  /

SUBSTR('HTTP://TAHITI.OR
------------------------
http://tahiti.oracle.com

---

Didn't you say you only wanted the "tahiti.oracle.com" (or the original yahoo one) part of the URL?

Yes, that is what I said. But given that the data provider already strips the 'http://' portion of the URL, the first option that I came up with works.

However, if that wasn't the case, I could still get to that result through this piece:

Select substr(substr('http://tahiti.oracle.com/' , 0,
(instr('http://tahiti.oracle.com/' , '/', 1, 3)-1)), 8) from dual

SUBSTR(SUBSTR('HTTP://TAHITI.O
tahiti.oracle.com

Regardless, I'm not terribly concerned with the prefix, so long as I can get rid of any extensions off of the original domain name.



- Eric