I'm not familiar with the use of double quotes in regexes. However, you
seem to have the right idea. Instead of quotes, try using \\ in place
of each \ you want to match. E.g.:
^\\(\\[A-Za-z0-0_-]+)+\\?$
Quick explanation
\\ - Must start with a single backslash
(\\[A-Za-z0-0_-]+) - A pattern representing a backslash followed by one
or more valid letters/numbers/symbols. If - is the last character in a
[ ] block, it loses its special meaning and just matches -.
The pattern is wrapped in () and specified to occur 1 or more times with
+.
Finally, there's a trailing \\? saying the path may optionally end with
\. Don't know if you want that or not.
NOTE: this pattern won't allow \\. Don't know if that matters.
K.C.
Daniel Massie wrote:
I am trying to write a regular expression to represent a network path.
Network paths are of the form
\\path\to\folder
The regular expression which I thought would achieve this is
^\{2}([A-Za-z0-9]-_)+\{1}([A-Za-z0-9]-_\)+$
But I am having no luck. Can anyone help?
Thanks
Daniel Massie
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