Filter illegal characters

Clive Andrews · Post by **Clive Andrews** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:19 pm

Our main flow builds the archive hierarchy from the rep name/reference and the filename in the XML from iDropper.

This works fine 99.5% of the time. However, in their infinite wisdom, customers sometimes use illegal, non-dos characters in their filename.

This plays havoc with the new directory structure.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can build the "Archive hierarchy" but filter the 'dodgy characters'...?

dkelly · Post by **dkelly** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:55 pm

Clive, couldn't you scan the filenames as String from the XML file and remove "illegal" character before creating the directories?

Dwight Kelly

Apago, Inc.

dkelly@apago.com

Benoit · Post by **Benoit** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:48 pm

Clive,

I rename the files before using it with a regexp like this:

replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/g,"")

Benoit

Clive Andrews · Post by **Clive Andrews** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:31 pm

Benoit wrote: Clive,

I rename the files before using it with a regexp like this:

replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_]/g,"")

Benoit

Trouble is, I need to either catch it at the iDropper upload (where it builds the file list in XML) - or I need to edit the xml file list to match the renamed files...

Hmmm.....