#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; while (my $line = ) { chomp $line; my ($dir, $file) = (split(m{/}, $line))[-2, -1]; print "$dir $file\n"; } __DATA__ http://www.domain.com/data/2005/sales/01012005.txt http://www.domain.com/data/2005/sales-jan/01232005.txt http://www.domain.com/data/2005/sales-local/01012005.txt http://www.domain.com/data/2005/sales-outside-jan/01012005.txt