in reply to Re: newbie parse Q
in thread newbie parse Q

Hmmm, he wrote:

give me the characters between the third \ and the ", assming you just read thru the text "add vdisk"

IIUC, a stricter translation (also taking into account the example line of text) of that sentence to a match would be

/add vdisk.*?(?:\\[^\\]*?){2}\\([[:alpha:]]+)\b/;