Hi,
How can check using .NET 1.1 that a string contains a valid filename
for winxp?
The application in question has a textbox where user can enter
filename and only the filename. It should not allowed to enter path
+filename like "c:\tmp\myfile. log" or relative paths "..\tmp
\myfile.log" - no directory info should be allowed, only the filename.
Any suggestions.
Sep 24 '08
18  2775 
On Sep 24, 1:07*pm, Family Tree Mike
<FamilyTreeM... @discussions.mi crosoft.comwrot e:
Oops! *You're right, I missed that in the doc. *Sorry!
"Jay Riggs" wrote:
On Sep 24, 7:48 am, Family Tree Mike
<FamilyTreeM... @discussions.mi crosoft.comwrot e:
You should just need to check if the string contains any invalid filename
characters as returned by Path.GetInvalid FilenameChars.
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...getinvalidfile....
"RedLars" wrote:
Hi,
How can check using .NET 1.1 that a string contains a valid filename
for winxp?
The application in question has a textbox where user can enter
filename and only the filename. It should not allowed to enter path
+filename like "c:\tmp\myfile. log" or relative paths "..\tmp
\myfile.log" - no directory info should be allowed, only the filename.
Any suggestions.- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Unfortunately, you can't use this method in 1.1.- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
After checking for invalid characters following the above suggestions,
would it be feasible to try to create a temp file just to see if your
host/target OS will complain?
On Sep 24, 4:27 pm, "G.S." <gstoy...@gmail .comwrote:
On Sep 24, 1:07 pm, Family Tree Mike
<FamilyTreeM... @discussions.mi crosoft.comwrot e:
Oops! You're right, I missed that in the doc. Sorry!
"Jay Riggs" wrote:
On Sep 24, 7:48 am, Family Tree Mike
<FamilyTreeM... @discussions.mi crosoft.comwrot e:
You should just need to check if the string contains any invalid filename
characters as returned by Path.GetInvalid FilenameChars.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...getinvalidfile...
"RedLars" wrote:
Hi,
How can check using .NET 1.1 that a string contains a valid filename
for winxp?
The application in question has a textbox where user can enter
filename and only the filename. It should not allowed to enter path
+filename like "c:\tmp\myfile. log" or relative paths "..\tmp
\myfile.log" - no directory info should be allowed, only the filename.
Any suggestions.- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Unfortunately, you can't use this method in 1.1.- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
After checking for invalid characters following the above suggestions,
would it be feasible to try to create a temp file just to see if your
host/target OS will complain?
Yes, But that would throw an exception, which is not a very good
approach, you can do something like:
bool isvalid(string str){
try{
string path = Path.GetTempFil eName() + str;
File.Create( path).Close();
File.Delete( path);
return true;
}catch{
return false;
}
}
On Sep 24, 1:27*pm, "G.S." <gstoy...@gmail .comwrote:
On Sep 24, 1:07*pm, Family Tree Mike
<FamilyTreeM... @discussions.mi crosoft.comwrot e:
Oops! *You're right, I missed that in the doc. *Sorry!
"Jay Riggs" wrote:
On Sep 24, 7:48 am, Family Tree Mike
<FamilyTreeM... @discussions.mi crosoft.comwrot e:
You should just need to check if the string contains any invalid filename
characters as returned by Path.GetInvalid FilenameChars.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...getinvalidfile...
"RedLars" wrote:
Hi,
How can check using .NET 1.1 that a string contains a valid filename
for winxp?
The application in question has a textbox where user can enter
filename and only the filename. It should not allowed to enter path
+filename like "c:\tmp\myfile. log" or relative paths "..\tmp
\myfile.log" - no directory info should be allowed, only the filename.
Any suggestions.- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Unfortunately, you can't use this method in 1.1.- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
After checking for invalid characters following the above suggestions,
would it be feasible to try to create a temp file just to see if your
host/target OS will complain?- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
G.S.
After checking for invalid characters in the filename why not just
attempt to save the file where you want it to go and handle any
exceptions as they occur? This seems the more direct approach unless
I'm missing something. Saving to a temp location successfully only
tells you you can save it to the temp location.
-Jay
On Sep 24, 9:43*am, Jay Riggs <jay.s.ri...@gm ail.comwrote:
On Sep 24, 6:45*am, RedLars <Liverpool1...@ gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
How can check using .NET 1.1 that a string contains a valid filename
for winxp?
The application in question has a textbox where user can enter
filename and only the filename. It should not allowed to enter path
+filename like "c:\tmp\myfile. log" or relative paths "..\tmp
\myfile.log" - no directory info should be allowed, only the filename.
Any suggestions.
RedLars,
If you want to check if a given string could be a valid filename only
(even for files that don't exist), you can use a RegEx.
I've been using this one lately:
^[^ \\/:*?""<>|]+([ ]+[^ \\/:*?""<>|]+)*$
Which I got here:http://regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=2286
A word of warning: using just this regex will not allow you to
identify the several strings Windows will not allow for filenames
(such as nul, com1, etc.). *I've been regexs that covered includes
there reserved words can can't find it now.
HTH
-Jay
Boy, I really mangled the last part of my response above. What I
meant to say was that the regex I provided a link to in my previous
message will check a potential filename for characters that Windows
will not allow, but will not check for filenames that Windows
specifically disallows. Examples include nul, com1, etc.
I found the regex that handles this at the following: http://regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=85
I ended up using the modified version found on the first user comment
for the regex. It worked fine for me.
-Jay
Just the sort of method I was looking for but unfortunately it
requires atleast .NET 2.0 I'm using .NET 1.1
On 24 Sep, 16:48, Family Tree Mike
<FamilyTreeM... @discussions.mi crosoft.comwrot e:
You should just need to check if the string contains any invalid filename
characters as returned by Path.GetInvalid FilenameChars.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...getinvalidfile...
"RedLars" wrote:
Hi,
How can check using .NET 1.1 that a string contains a valid filename
for winxp?
The application in question has a textbox where user can enter
filename and only the filename. It should not allowed to enter path
+filename like "c:\tmp\myfile. log" or relative paths "..\tmp
\myfile.log" - no directory info should be allowed, only the filename.
Any suggestions.
Just checking for '\' seems uncomplete. I would guess there are other
characters that are invalid in a filename.
On 24 Sep, 17:09, rhaazy <rha...@gmail.c omwrote:
On Sep 24, 9:45*am, RedLars <Liverpool1...@ gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
How can check using .NET 1.1 that a string contains a valid filename
for winxp?
The application in question has a textbox where user can enter
filename and only the filename. It should not allowed to enter path
+filename like "c:\tmp\myfile. log" or relative paths "..\tmp
\myfile.log" - no directory info should be allowed, only the filename.
Any suggestions.
Just check your string to make sure there are no occurences of \
.IndexOf("\");
Hi Jay Riggs and OD.
Must admit I'm far from an export on regex's so I was hoping you guys
could very briefly explain your expressions?
They both appear to be split into two parts with different content in
each part.
Appreciate the help :)
On 24 Sep, 18:43, Jay Riggs <jay.s.ri...@gm ail.comwrote:
On Sep 24, 6:45*am, RedLars <Liverpool1...@ gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
How can check using .NET 1.1 that a string contains a valid filename
for winxp?
The application in question has a textbox where user can enter
filename and only the filename. It should not allowed to enter path
+filename like "c:\tmp\myfile. log" or relative paths "..\tmp
\myfile.log" - no directory info should be allowed, only the filename.
Any suggestions.
RedLars,
If you want to check if a given string could be a valid filename only
(even for files that don't exist), you can use a RegEx.
I've been using this one lately:
^[^ \\/:*?""<>|]+([ ]+[^ \\/:*?""<>|]+)*$
Which I got here:http://regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=2286
A word of warning: using just this regex will not allow you to
identify the several strings Windows will not allow for filenames
(such as nul, com1, etc.). *I've been regexs that covered includes
there reserved words can can't find it now.
HTH
-Jay
On Sep 24, 10:14*pm, RedLars <Liverpool1...@ gmail.comwrote:
Hi Jay Riggs and OD.
Must admit I'm far from an export on regex's so I was hoping you guys
could very briefly explain your expressions?
They both appear to be split into two parts with different content in
each part.
Appreciate the help :)
On 24 Sep, 18:43, Jay Riggs <jay.s.ri...@gm ail.comwrote:
On Sep 24, 6:45*am, RedLars <Liverpool1...@ gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
How can check using .NET 1.1 that a string contains a valid filename
for winxp?
The application in question has a textbox where user can enter
filename and only the filename. It should not allowed to enter path
+filename like "c:\tmp\myfile. log" or relative paths "..\tmp
\myfile.log" - no directory info should be allowed, only the filename..
Any suggestions.
RedLars,
If you want to check if a given string could be a valid filename only
(even for files that don't exist), you can use a RegEx.
I've been using this one lately:
^[^ \\/:*?""<>|]+([ ]+[^ \\/:*?""<>|]+)*$
Which I got here:http://regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=2286
A word of warning: using just this regex will not allow you to
identify the several strings Windows will not allow for filenames
(such as nul, com1, etc.). *I've been regexs that covered includes
there reserved words can can't find it now.
HTH
-Jay- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
RedLars,
Rather than learn the details of these particular regular expressions,
it might be better for you to learn about regular expressions in
general.
I've found various MSDN articles useful and I've found this article
useful: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/regextutorial.aspx
You might also want to check out the multitude of (free) regular
expression designer tools that are available. You can use these to
test and to learn about how regular expressions work. I like this one
(but admit I haven't done a lot of shopping around): http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/#regexd
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