\\ in dblQuotedString

[F.A. Pinkse]

Hi All,

From all the parsing packages I have used so far pyparsing gave me result straight away even with not all the possiblilties explored.

But... what do I need to do to get a '\' parsed as part of the text between " and " like in:
"G:\\Folder name\\filename.extension"
dblQuotedString does not handle the \\. to be more precise it stops parsing at the position of \, with an error Expected '"' when
I used dblQuotedString.setDebug()

With best regards.

Frans.

[Paul McGuire]

Frans -

You may wish to create your own special quoted string definition for this case.  Here is a very simple-minded one:

from pyparsing import *
test = r'Here is a quoted filespec: "G:\Folder name\filename.extension" '

QUOTE = Literal('"').suppress()
quotedFilespec = Combine( QUOTE + CharsNotIn('"\n\r') + QUOTE )

for t,s,e in quotedFilespec.scanString(test):
    print t[0]

This quotedFilespec will not do any special handling of backslashes, so it will work well for you for quoted strings that contain Windows filespecs.

-- Paul

[F.A. Pinkse]

Hi Paul,

Ok, working around is good. I was focussed on options in the dblQuotedString.

Thank you for the example. It worked for me.

Great package.

With best regards,

Frans.