parse url

the statement reads like:

^ match start of string
( I want the portion in brackets returned to me
.* anything
\/\/   then two slashes //
[^\/]*  anything that is not a slash
) end of the part I want returned
\/  then a slash

returns:  HTTP://website.com

<?php
$url = "HTTP://website.com/folder/folder/page.php?car=Ford&size=compact#top";
preg_match("/^(.*\/\/[^\/]*)\//",$url,$matches);
echo $matches[1];
//var_dump($matches);
?>

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Doesn't work

I am using php 5.3.3 in Ubuntu linux.  Works in a browser and on the command line.

Did it not return anything or did it return something that was not what you expected.

Of the supplied URL which part do you want to access:

HTTP://website.com/folder/folder/page.php?car=Ford&size=compact#top

thanks