Hi All, Sorry for rewriting this query again since I couldn't provide code. I have following piece of code to fetch intermediate and last node of a string, i.e windows path or list of windows path. Here I want to fetch a word based on delimiter "\". some of input lines are as follows. Here I want to fetch "axy" and "#@$#@$@" from the below lines using the key pattern $key="C:\abc\dfg"; The code is: 
 
The arrary contents are 
1. C:\abc\dfg\axy
2. C:\abc\dfg\#@$#@$@\hwllo

$key="C:\abc\dfg"


   $key=~s/(\\[!@#$%^&(),.\}\{[\]+-])/\\$1/g;
   $line=~s/(\\[!@#$%^&(),.\}\{[\]+-])/\\$1/g;
       
   if( $line =~ /$key\\\S+\\/){ # if this is not node 
      ($pat)=$line=~/$key\\(\S+)\\/;
   }else{                      # if end node 
      ($last_node)=$line=~/$key\\(.*)/;
  }

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What is wrong in this reg exp... Can any one help me out here? Thanks, Sunil

In reply to unable to fomulate right regular expression to fetch the intermediate and last word from a line (windows path) using delimiter "\" by suniln

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