well thanks for the quick replies, but now my regex doesn't work.
[code]
import re
p = re.compile(r'[A-Za-z]:\\([^/:\*?"<>\|])*')
x = p.match("c:\test")
[/code]
x is None
any ideas why? i escape the back-slash, the asterisk *, and the PIPE |
....b/c they are regex special characters.