Re: Reg Exp

Sorry, I was at work and we were fixing to leave so I was rushed to
type that up.

Here is an example of the input:
path:\string1\string2\...\stringn:<a letter><some more paramaters that
may contain a :>

Now, the only string I want to get from that input is stringn. I can
gurantee that there will only ever be once occurance of something that
looks like \[a-zA-Z]: THe problem is I cannot get any of the
expressions I write for the splite string function to work. The one I
currantly have(its about the 8th iteration of it) looks like this:

\\\\\\w+\\: Which, as far as I can tell, means this:
the first two \\ are for a literal followed by the next two for a
literal \(this should find a backslash). Then look for all at least 1
character but it doesn't matter how many there are with \w+, then look
for a literal : using \:. Hope that makes more sense.

I don't understand why when I do this its not returning stringn, but it
returns stringn-1 and the letter after the colon. Thanks

.

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