Re: Making a string, file-safe (file-encode??)

adamorn@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I was wondering if there was a quick way to ensure that a filename is
a safe.

What I mean is that if I am creating a file from a string variable, I
want to ensure that the file will actually be able to be created. So
if it contains a "?", then clearly I would want to eliminate it.

I know that there is something like URL encode that encodes strings
for use in urls, but is there another function that works similarly
for strings for files that I want to create?

Thanks!
? is not invalid on all system, linux handles it perfectly. The characters that are invalid are system specific, and some systems don't have limitations at all.

The only portable way to handle this is to catch exceptions and report them to the user.
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