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.

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