Getting the file name and the path into separate variables from the absolute path

flavor .NET

pattern

(c:[wx20\]+\)([w]+.jpg)

will match yr sample input
c:documents and settingsblahblah2picture.jpg

and store the result in 2 groups:

1st one:  c:documents and settingsblahblah2
2nd one: picture.jpg

later in the supporting code u need to access the groups and
store the
contents of them in the vars (strings)

note that w will match [a-zA-Z0-9_] only.

flavor  TCL (although not needed there)

i think relying on a specific characterset for filenames
might not be a
good idea. I think this pattern is preferable

(.*\)([^\]*).

Note: Works only with a "greedy" regex
implementation and no check is
covered whether the full searchstring was matched.

Torsten , did u mean

(.*\)([^\]*)

or even

(.*\)([^\]+)      #otherwise it'll give u an empty match
at the end
w/smth like 'c:'

i.e w/o the dot at the end?Thne yes it works fine. Good
thinking.
Thnaks for this one.

Sergei

Hi Sergei,

you are right, Originally the dot was meant to be "full
stop - end of
sentence".

"*" or "+" actually depends whether the
OP could have data ending with
a ""

Regards Torsten