RE Despair - help required

[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"



Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> "Yoav" wrote:
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>>I am trying the following:
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>>re.search(r'\\[^"\\]+(?=("?$))', "c:\ret_files")
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>>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
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> 
> 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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