java regular expression to match file path

Question

I was trying out to create a regular expression to match file path in java like

C:\\abc\\def\\ghi\\abc.txt

I tried this ([

Answer 1

Use this regex:

"([a-zA-Z]:)?(\\\\[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)+\\\\?";

I added two modifications: you forgot to add . for matching the file name abc.txt and backslash escaping (\\) was also needed.