Best way to get the $request_uri without the starting slash

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Monday 19 December 2011 13:54:33 Matthew Ward wrote:
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> 
> So now I have the correct key name for memcached. Are there any better ways
> of doing this? Would this have a serious impact on performance, performing
> this conditional every time? Is it possible do this using set without the
> conditional part?
> 

You can utilize "map" module functionality for such tasks, e. g.:

  map $request_uri $request_key {
    default   index;
    ~^/(.+)$  $1;
  }

wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev