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.
Robert Kern wrote:
> 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 (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?
>
>
> 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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