[Gambas-user] Regexp pattern in string question

[Ron]

Hi, has anyone dealed with regexp patterns, how to define this regexp 
pattern in a string?

^(/\S+) - - /\[(/\d+)/\w+/\d{4}:(/\d+):/\d+:/\d+ [/\d+-]+/\]!]"

So for example :

DIM sPattern as String = "^(/\S+) - - 
/\[(/\d+)/\w+/\d{4}:(/\d+):/\d+:/\d+ [/\d+-]+/\]!]"

RegExpFind (sPattern, "text to search")

IDE reports "Bad Character Constant in string..."  as error, it's not 
happy with all those / and \ chars I guess.

They are difficult enough already if I have to exacpe them ones more, 
i'm lost ;-)

I'm trying to parse apache log with it (getting client ip adress/time/date)
Maybe Scan() is a better option, anyone dealed with this dilemma?

Regards,
Ron_2nd.