Better path/filename regex?

[sherifffruitfly]

This is the best I could quickly come up with:

(?<path>[a-z]:\\(?:[^\\]+\\)+)(?<filename>.+?\.[\S]+)

It's certainly too permissive, but I don't *think* it leaves any valid
ones out (I'm sure a counterexample is only seconds away... :) ).
Many thanks if you have a better one...

cdj

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

cdj,

Why use a regular expression for this? Why not use the static methods
on the Path class in the System.IO namespace to do what you want?
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This is the best I could quickly come up with:

(?<path>[a-z]:\\(?:[^\\]+\\)+)(?<filename>.+?\.[\S]+)

It's certainly too permissive, but I don't *think* it leaves any valid
ones out (I'm sure a counterexample is only seconds away... :) ).
Many thanks if you have a better one...

cdj

[not_a_commie]

The built-in File and Path classes would help you out immensely. They
already have functionality to do this.

This is the best I could quickly come up with:

(?<path>[a-z]:\\(?:[^\\]+\\)+)(?<filename>.+?\.[\S]+)

It's certainly too permissive, but I don't *think* it leaves any valid
ones out (I'm sure a counterexample is only seconds away... :) ).

Many thanks if you have a better one...

cdj

[sherifffruitfly]

On Apr 11, 2:00 pm, "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]"
<[e-mail]:

cdj,

Why use a regular expression for this? Why not use the static methods
on the Path class in the System.IO namespace to do what you want?

Because I didn't know they had path/filename strippers. For some
reason I thought a .net path was what most people called a path
+filename. I'll totally look again tho - thanks!

cdj