Re: Sanitize file name
Gordon Beaton wrote:
On 25 Oct 2007 12:50:09 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:
Philipp <sicsicsic@freesurf.ch> writes:
Is there a way in the API to sanitize a user-supplied string so that it
can be used as a valid filename?
I have specifed and implemented a conversion for this,
which is called ?Filode?.
Since one can never know in advance under which FileSystem a
JVM will be hosted, Filode only assumes that a filename may
contain characters A-Z of a single case.
One really irritating thing an application can do is prevent me from
using the full capabilities offered by my system. Why would you want
to enforce such a limitation? The OS will tell you whether a filename
was valid or not when you try to create a file with it.
On at least some versions of Windows, certain filenames
are valid but surprising. Try using the file name "con.txt"
and see what happens (on my XP box, "type con.anything" echoes
what's typed at the keyboard).
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Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid