s = r'c:\temp' for c in s:
... if c == '\\': ... print 'Slash ', c ... else: ... print 'Not slash ', c ... Not slash c Not slash : Slash \ Not slash t Not slash e Not slash m Not slash p
Cheers, Taylor
hi
I know this is OT but ...
i need to get the name of a file from the string containing the path. I did some ugly code (i guess it can be done nicely with regular expressions but i dont know much about it.) and i am almost there, the problem is that because the path contains \ backslashes i dont know how to check if the char is a \
this is the (ugly) code:
p = 'c:\file\myfile.gif'
start = 0
for c in range(len(p)-1, -1, -1): // read starting from end
if start :
if p[c] == '\' : # << THIS iS THE PROBLEM
print '+'*10
while 1: pass
else :
s = s + p[c] ## append
print s
else :
if p[c] == '.' : # already read the extension start getting the chars into s
start = 1
Basically when it comes to check if I reached the \ i dont know how to tell python i am looking for a character "\" as this is the scape character used in strings. I have been looking for tips online but couldnt get anything clear.
many thanks
enrike