How to check if it's a valid Filename ?

[mozart90]

Hi,

I've got a string and I would like to use it as a file name. Unfortunatly there are often forbidden charaters in these strings like * or /.

(OS is win XP)

I didn't find anything to this topic in the forum.

I want to be sure to get a valid file name, so forbidden characters should be exchanged with a _ or something like that

Is there a UDF?

Is it clever to write this with regexp ?

Greetings mozart90

Edited December 27, 2006 by mozart90

[NeoFoX]

StringReplace() ??

Neo

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

Global $a = "theword.toCheck"
$return = StringRegExp($a, "^[A-Za-z0-9_ -\.]+$", 0)
If @error <> 0 Then MsgBox(64, "Something is wrong", "Damn :-)")
If $return Then
    MsgBox(64, "Info", "No bad char found")
Else
    MsgBox(16, "Info", "Bad char found")
EndIf

So long,

Mega