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Is there a quick way to check if an inputted string is a legal file/path name ? As in, does not contain slashes, asterisks, question marks, etc, but still can contain dashes and underscores (so, isAlphaNumeric() won't work).

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I did search, but I didn't find anything because I looked for "legal" path name instead of "valid".

So here it is as a reference for anyone else who is looking for this:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=113403

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I did search, but I didn't find anything because I looked for "legal" path name instead of "valid".

So here it is as a reference for anyone else who is looking for this:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=113403

Looks like that first function would consider a UNC path to be invalid. I'm also not sure if that is a cross platform from NTFS and FAT systems.

Anyway, If I were going to personally write a func for it, I'd be sure to read the "File and Directory Names" part of this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.aspx

And of course, as Psalty said, create a regex patttern for it based on the link info.

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Is there a quick way to check if an inputted string is a legal file/path name ? As in, does not contain slashes, asterisks, question marks, etc, but still can contain dashes and underscores (so, isAlphaNumeric() won't work).

Hope this helps.

$String = 'C:\Users\SomeUser\SomeFolder\Some_File.txt' ;Full path.
$File = StringSplit($String,"\",1)
$File = $File[UBound($File) - 1] ;File Name.
Msgbox(0,"Result:" , StringRegExp($String, '[:"?*\/<>|]', ""))
Msgbox(0,"Result:" , StringRegExp($File , '[:"?*\/<>|]', ""))
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Slashes are perfectly valid in paths under Windows and are equivalent to backslashes for Windows programs with some exceptions. See the MSDN link given above.

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This should be close but it must have a path and file name, not just a path.

$sPath = @DocumentsDir & "\Some folder\somefile.txt"
$bValidPath = False
If StringRegExp($sPath, "^([a-zA-Z]\:|\\\\[^\/\\:*?"<>|]+\\[^\/\\:*?"<>|]+)(\\[^\/\\:*?"<>|]+)+(\.[^\/\\:*?"<>|]+)$") Then $bValidPath = True

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This should be close but it must have a path and file name, not just a path.

$sPath = @DocumentsDir & "\Some folder\somefile.txt"
$bValidPath = False
If StringRegExp($sPath, "^([a-zA-Z]\:|\\\\[^\/\\:*?"<>|]+\\[^\/\\:*?"<>|]+)(\\[^\/\\:*?"<>|]+)+(\.[^\/\\:*?"<>|]+)$") Then $bValidPath = True

As jchd said previously, I can see that failing on certain volume types ( although I did see that regex type online somewhere before ).

If we follow the msdn link I provided several beers ago... I could fathom something like the following working:

Func _PathIsValid($s_path, $f_isdir = False, $f_usedin_IO = False)

    If StringLeft($s_path, 2) <> "\\" Then
        If FileExists($s_path) Then Return True
    EndIf

    ; for possible relative path
    $s_path = _PathFull($s_path)

    Local $s_drive, $s_dir, $s_fname, $s_ext
    _PathSplit($s_path, $s_drive, $s_dir, $s_fname, $s_ext)

    Local $f_unc = False
    If StringLeft($s_drive, 2) = "\\" Then $f_unc = True

    If IsKeyword($f_usedin_IO) Or $f_usedin_IO = -1 Then $f_usedin_IO = False

    ; validate this is not an I/O verification and not unc
    If Not $f_unc And $f_usedin_IO Then
        ; I/O API's convert "/" to "\"
        $s_path = StringReplace($s_path, "/", "\")
        If FileExists($s_path) Then Return True
    EndIf

    If IsKeyword($f_isdir) Or $f_isdir = -1 Then $f_isdir = False

    ; Concat dir and fname (and ext) if this is supposed to be a dir
    If Not $s_ext And $f_isdir Then
        $s_dir &= $s_fname & $s_ext
        $s_fname = ""
        $s_ext = ""
    EndIf

    ; If the drive doesn't exist, then it is not a valid path
    If Not $f_unc Then
        If Not FileExists($s_drive) Then Return False
    EndIf

    Local $s_fsystem = DriveGetFileSystem($s_drive)
    If @error Then Return False

    Local $iPATH_MAX = 255
    Local $i_dirlen = StringLen($s_dir)

    ; 12 chars must remain for filename and ext (optional)
    If ($i_dirlen > ($iPATH_MAX - 12)) Then Return False

    Switch $s_fsystem
        Case "UDF"
            If $i_dirlen > ($iPATH_MAX - 1) Then Return False
        Case Else
            ; Only found NTFS, exFAT, UDF, and FAT32 with options for this
            If $i_dirlen > $iPATH_MAX Then Return False
    EndSwitch

    Return (StringRegExp($s_dir & $s_fname & $s_ext, '[<>:"/\|\?\*]') == 0)
EndFunc

Although I did not test UNC very much at all. Anyone is more than welcome to test it and or change the above code to be more appropriate.

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I was actually looking for the one you and I worked out one night where we also checked the lenght of the path, I'm just not sure where I filed it at the moment. It definitly hasn't been added to a library yet.

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