Re: Sanitize file name

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:47:45 GMT

Message-ID:

<7a36649f0a40c@uwe>

Philipp wrote:
...

Is there a way to test if a filename is valid on a certain platform?

This E.G. makes for some interesting results, though I
am not sure if it really helps with the problem. The
programmer would need to specially account for the
'last situation' where the user puts a character in the
name that is used as (or is generally understood to be)
a path separator.

Irritatingly, although Win's path separator is '\', '/'
will apparently also work (here, on this Win XP pro
box).

<sscce>
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

class TestFileName {

  static void testFileName(String name) {
    try {
      File f = new File(name);
      System.out.println( f.getCanonicalPath() );
    } catch(IOException ioe) {
      System.err.println( ioe.getMessage() + " '" + name + "'");
    }
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    testFileName("123.txt");
    testFileName("12?3.txt");
    testFileName("12[3.txt");
    testFileName("12{3.txt");
    testFileName("12!3.txt");
    testFileName("12/3.txt");
  }
}
</sscce>

[OP]
D:\projects\123.txt
Invalid argument '12?3.txt'
D:\projects\12[3.txt
D:\projects\12{3.txt
D:\projects\12!3.txt
D:\projects\12\3.txt
Press any key to continue . . .
[\OP]

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