RE Despair - help required

[Fredrik Lundh]

"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

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