Ross Levis wrote: > Is there a Delphi (7) or Windows function which checks a potential > filename for invalid filename characters and replaces invalid chars with > some other char?
No. In part, it depends on which file system will receive the file. > I have a simple function as follows: > for i := 1 to length(Result) do > if Result[i] in ['\','/',':',';','*','?','"','<','>','|','+','='] > then > Result[i] := ' '; I'm pretty sure "+" and "=" are allowed. Be careful that you trim leading and trailing spaces. I think the shell trims them automatically, but I'm not sure whether the kernel does, so you could inadvertantly generate file names that Explorer or cmd.exe won't allow access to. > But I suspect this will cause problems with unicode filenames. That particular code won't work because you can't have a set of Unicode characters. Other than that, I don't see any problems. NTFS supports Unicode names. There are some characters that would be strange for a file name to contain, such as the paragraph-break character or the zero-width non-joiner, but I don't think the file system itself would object to those. Again, it would probably be Explorer that has problems with those sorts of characters. > The filename is being constructed from information stored in a database > which could contain unicode chars. You could take the heavy-handed approach and convert all strings to ASCII. -- Rob _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
