Hi All

This is simple for most of you guys but I have been trying for couple of hours now, and getting no where fast…

I have folder paths like the following,
C:\my folder
c:\perl
f:\cus shared folder.net-03\shated-data
D:\Jan03\acc\emp acc
s:\top lever\lowerdirs
w:\share_A\scin share folder\docs

I need to capture the drive letter and the top-level folders only. I used the code below, 
use strict;
my $path = shift;
$path =~ /^(\w):\\(.+)\\?/;
print "Drive : $1, Top Level : $2\n";

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However it’s failing, I understand that the error is the \\? bit of the regex. What I am trying to say is, grab the first character and anything in between the first set of 2 back slashes or to the end of the line. It’s easier said than done for me.

Thanks

In reply to filtering folder path using regex. by blackadder

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