Rex Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 (edited) Hi Merry Christmas and a happy new year. I'm looking for a way to strip chars. that can't be used in a save file name. i get the name to save the file with thrue an input read, where a company name could be writen, but not all comp's have legale char's in there name, så to be shure that i could save the file to disk i need to strip thoes chars, but Stringreplace is't goodenugh any one have a sug for how i could do this? Cheers /Rex Edited December 30, 2009 by Rex
EndFunc Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 HiMerry Christmas and a happy new year.I'm looking for a way to strip chars. that can't be used in a save file name. i get the name to save the file with thrue an input read, where a company name could be writen, but not all comp's have legale char's in there name, så to be shure that i could save the file to disk i need to strip thoes chars, but Stringreplace is't goodenugh any one have a sug for how i could do this?Cheers/Rexdo you have an example string that has those chars that you don't want? EndFuncAutoIt is the shiznit. I love it.
Moderators Melba23 Posted December 30, 2009 Moderators Posted December 30, 2009 Rex,You need to enter the murky world of Regular Expressions! This one removes all banned characters from a string which is to be used as a file name:$sText = "Wonder* Corporation /inc\" $sNewText = StringRegExpReplace($sText, '\\|/|:|\*|\?|\"|\<|\>|\|', "") MsgBox(0, "New Text", $sNewText)I you have questions, I will try and answer them, but I am not an expert in SRE by any means. M23 Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area
AdmiralAlkex Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 så to beSnygg felstavning! .Some of my scripts: ShiftER, Codec-Control, Resolution switcher for HTC ShiftSome of my UDFs: SDL UDF, SetDefaultDllDirectories, Converting GDI+ Bitmap/Image to SDL Surface
Rex Posted December 30, 2009 Author Posted December 30, 2009 do you have an example string that has those chars that you don't want?Hi EndFuncNope, i don't have a list of chars - course i'm not shure on witch can or can't be used in filenames, and coulden finde any thing on my friend google but it could be that i dont use the prober search string ? who knows..Regards/Rex
Rex Posted December 30, 2009 Author Posted December 30, 2009 Snygg felstavning! Quit right, but i think that folkes know what i meen Cheers/Rex
Rex Posted December 30, 2009 Author Posted December 30, 2009 Rex, You need to enter the murky world of Regular Expressions! This one removes all banned characters from a string which is to be used as a file name: $sText = "Wonder* Corporation /inc\" $sNewText = StringRegExpReplace($sText, '\\|/|:|\*|\?|\"|\<|\>|\|', "") MsgBox(0, "New Text", $sNewText) I you have questions, I will try and answer them, but I am not an expert in SRE by any means. M23 Hi Thx, this is what i'm looking for - after Replying to Admirale... i found the same thing in help file, dont know how i could overlook it in the first place Cheers /Rex
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