Well here she be: http://thinkloop.com/filez/almostalphanumeric.zip
Cheers,
Baz
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:09 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: 'safe' filename UDF
That is exactly what I'm looking for.
Baz wrote:
> I have a UDF that removes any chars besides letters, numbers, underscore
and
> any additional good chars you specify to keep.
>
> USAGE
> AlmostAlphaNumeric(FileName); // returns all letters, numbers and
underscore
> AlmostAlphaNumeric(FileName,'@()'); // returns the same plus these
chars:@()
>
> Is that something u are looking for?
>
> Baz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: January 5, 2006 11:34 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: 'safe' filename UDF
>
> Actually, that *is* what I do, too. But, this app was written long ago,
> by someone else, and has been running this way for a while. Somehow, an
> issue never came up until someone uploaded an image file named Lot
> #31.jpg, which caused an error when displaying a popup image window.
> Changing the way the whole thing works at this point just isn't going to
> fly. Wish I knew how to write RegExp's, prolly wouldn't be that hard to
> do, if I don't hear anything here today, I'll prolly just figure out how
> to do it myself. It's about time I learned how to use RegExp's anyways.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ray
>
> Bobby Hartsfield wrote:
>
>>I don't, but what I usually do is save the original file name as is just
>
> for
>
>>display purposes so the person who uploaded it can spot it easily. Then
>>rename the file according to some other things... like and ID in the
>>database, a category, etc...
>>
>>So a link to a file might look like...
>>
>><a href="0001.pdf">Old File Name.pdf</a>
>>
>>Just an idea...
>>
>>..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.
>>Bobby Hartsfield
>>http://acoderslife.com
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:02 AM
>>To: CF-Talk
>>Subject: 'safe' filename UDF
>>
>>Anyone have a good UDF to replace "bad" characters in a filename with
>>"safe" ones? ie, replace # signs with blanks, spaces with '_', commas,
>>periods, etc? I just looked on cflib and found nothing.
>>
>
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