No, no, I meant '/' -- I want to match on the _foreward_ slash
"Jeff P." wrote:
>
> I've been messing with this for a little while now, but I can't get this
> to work. How do I match the last occurence of '\' in a string? I want to
> remove the file name from a url (e.g. news/breakingnews/981001b.html -->
> news/breakingnews/ ).
>
> Here is the simplest version (that doesn't work). It matches the _first_
> backslash.
>
> import regex
>
> file_in = open( 'dir.txt', 'r+' )
> for line in file_in.readlines():
> print regex.search( '/', line )
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Jeff P.
"Jeff P." wrote:
>
> I've been messing with this for a little while now, but I can't get this
> to work. How do I match the last occurence of '\' in a string? I want to
> remove the file name from a url (e.g. news/breakingnews/981001b.html -->
> news/breakingnews/ ).
>
> Here is the simplest version (that doesn't work). It matches the _first_
> backslash.
>
> import regex
>
> file_in = open( 'dir.txt', 'r+' )
> for line in file_in.readlines():
> print regex.search( '/', line )
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Jeff P.