parse out domain

how can i easily parse out a domain from a string

meaining if i take in a string http://www.xxx.com/mytestpage.html
it will always return just the www.xxx.com without the rest of it

response.write Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")

Here are the rest of the Request objects for you to look through:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524602.aspx

I don't want the server variables -- I want to parse it out of a string (i'm actually taking it from referrer)

Well if you split the full URL on "//", and then split the remainder on "/", you're going to end up with the domain as the first element in your new array.

have a look here (http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general/how-do-i-parse-the-domain-name-out-of-a-url.html)

what if I wanted to take "http://localhost/portfolio/attics/default.asp" and strip out "http://localhost/portfolio/". Is that possible?

Sure,

RegExp will help you.

HTH, Tom