"Yoav" wrote: >I am trying the following: > > re.search(r'\\[^"\\]+(?=("?$))', "c:\ret_files") > > and I get a return of NoneType, and I have no idea why. I know that I > missing something here, but I really can't figure out why
instead of struggling with weird REs, why not use Python's standard filename manipulation library instead? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list