RE Despair - help required

[Sion Arrowsmith]

In article <430dcea0$1 at news.bezeqint.net>, Yoav  <yoav_artzi at il.vio.com> wrote:
>Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> "Yoav" wrote:
>>>I am trying the following:
>>>
>>>re.search(r'\\[^"\\]+(?=("?$))', "c:\ret_files")
>> 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
>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"

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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