yoav

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 (I bet it's
something obvious). I also tried this RE on KODOS and it works fine
there, so I am really puzzled.

Any ideas?


Thanks.

sybren stuvel

Yoav enlightened us with:


Because you don't match a carriage return "\r".


Use forward slashes instead of backward slashes. And go nag at
Microsoft for using the most widely used escape character as a path
separator...

Sybren
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robert kern

Look at the second string. It has "\r" in the middle of it where you
really want "\\r" (or alternatively r"c:\ret_files").

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Robert Kern
rkern@ucsd.edu

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Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
-- Richard Harter

yoav

Thanks guys. Issue solved.
I am also going to give Microsoft a call about it. Any other issues you
want me to raise while I am talking to them?


Cheers.

sion arrowsmith

Did you actually look at the docs Fredrik pointed you at? Did you,
in particular, notice os.path.basename, which does (almost) exactly
what you want?

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yoav

Thank you all guys. It seems like the simpler the solution, the more I
am happy about it. Sorry, for the simple question, I am quite new to
this lang.

Cheers.

sybren stuvel

Yoav enlightened us with:


Because you don't match a carriage return "\r".


Use forward slashes instead of backward slashes. And go nag at
Microsoft for using the most widely used escape character as a path
separator...

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Frank Zappa

robert kern

Look at the second string. It has "\r" in the middle of it where you
really want "\\r" (or alternatively r"c:\ret_files").

--
Robert Kern
rkern@ucsd.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
-- Richard Harter

yoav

Thanks guys. Issue solved.
I am also going to give Microsoft a call about it. Any other issues you
want me to raise while I am talking to them?


Cheers.

yoav

Don't think it will do much good. I need to get them from a file and
extract the last folder in the path. For example:
if I get "c:\dos\util"
I want to extract the string "\util"