I am having a bit of trouble.  I am new to Perl so try not to singe my
hair here...

I've got a URL string saved in a variable $proxyURL
The string itself looks something like this:
\\realserver%5Cwestulsrv%5CENL_34355101.rm

I am trying to break this out into an array using the split function.
I am trying to isolate the real media file by itself, so I an trying
to split the string by either the "/" symbol or the "%5C" hex value,
which I believe translates to a "/" symbol.  I thought that splitting
with a \/ would do the trick, but it doesn't seem to notice the %5c,
and if I split by %5c or \%5c or \x5c then I fragment the filename if
it contains a 5, so I'm not doing that right either.

Here is what I am doing...

and I have tried this:

and about 1 bazillion other things, anyone like to lend a hand??

Troy> Hello...
Troy> I am having a bit of trouble.  I am new to Perl so try not to singe my
Troy> hair here...

Troy> I've got a URL string saved in a variable $proxyURL
Troy> The string itself looks something like this:
Troy> \\realserver%5Cwestulsrv%5CENL_34355101.rm

You should be looking at URI::Escape from the LWP distribution.
Read "perldoc perlmodinstall" for information on how to install
it if it's not already installed for you.

print "Just another Perl hacker,"