making a valid file name...

[Edgar Matzinger]

Hi,

On 10/17/2006 06:22:45 PM, SpreadTooThin wrote:
> valid =
> ':./,^0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ '
> 

   not specifying the OS platform, these are not all the characters
that may occur in a filename: '[]{}-=", etc. And '/' is NOT valid.
On a unix platform. And it should be easy to scan the filename and
check every character against the 'valid-string'.

HTH, cu l8r, Edgar.
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