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Does anyone have a good module or clean method for making sure file names do
not have special charactes / illegal characters in them before attempting to
save the file.

I have a perl script that archives data based upon information in a text
file in each directory. The archive location is derived from that location
and I need to make sure there are no illegal / special characters in the
file name before creating it.

Thanks

Rich
Jul 19 '05 #1
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Does anyone have a good module or clean method for making sure file names do not have special charactes / illegal characters in them before attempting to save the file.

I have a perl script that archives data based upon information in a text
file in each directory. The archive location is derived from that location and I need to make sure there are no illegal / special characters in the
file name before creating it.

Thanks

Rich

Jul 19 '05 #2
In article <c6**********@m sunews.cl.msu.e du>, Rich Bogle
<wi@rjsolutions .org> wrote:
Does anyone have a good module or clean method for making sure file names do
not have special charactes / illegal characters in them before attempting to
save the file.

I have a perl script that archives data based upon information in a text
file in each directory. The archive location is derived from that location
and I need to make sure there are no illegal / special characters in the
file name before creating it.

Thanks

Rich


Use the tr operator to replace every character except those you wish to
keep. For example, if you only want the characters (a-zA-Z0-9_-.), use:

$filename =~ tr/a-zA-Z0-9_-.//cd;

For more info, enter "perldoc perlop" and search for 'Transliterates '.

FYI: this newsgroup is defunct. Try comp.lang.perl. misc in the future.
Jul 19 '05 #3

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