Re^2: Removing Bad Characters from a String

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Re^3: Removing Bad Characters from a String by ambrus (Abbot) on May 09, 2005 at 06:02 UTC
That's the list for NTFS, in FAT, more characters are banned. On the top of my head, I think the additional ones are `\x20 + = [ ] %` I think that control characters (`\x00-\x1f` but not `\x7f` IIRC) and backslash (`\\`) are also banned in filenames, despite that error message not mentioning them.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Removing Bad Characters from a String by mrborisguy (Hermit) on May 09, 2005 at 23:01 UTC
actually, i'm not sure about your assertion that those additional characters are banned in FAT. i'm running on my parents' win 98 machine, which has a FAT filesystem (i first assumed, but then i checked, and it is FAT). i successfully named a file 'a[0] += 7 % 3.txt'. this is also the OS i got my error message from. i'd upload a small image as proof, but i'm not really sure how.	[reply]
Re^5: Removing Bad Characters from a String by ambrus (Abbot) on May 10, 2005 at 10:01 UTC
I think you are right. Those extended characters are allowed in windows long filenames (vfat). I think however that DOS 6 does not allow any of them.	[reply]
Re^3: Removing Bad Characters from a String by merlyn (Sage) on May 09, 2005 at 01:33 UTC
Well, in the absence of contradications, I'm going to presume that the poster is using a sane operating system. Hence, my advice for unix. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^4: Removing Bad Characters from a String by polettix (Vicar) on May 09, 2005 at 18:24 UTC
LOL and ++ from me, but it's weird hearing this from one of the co-authors of Learning Perl on Win32 Systems... Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))') Don't fool yourself.	[reply]
Re^5: Removing Bad Characters from a String by merlyn (Sage) on May 09, 2005 at 18:36 UTC
one of the co-authors of Learning Perl on Win32 Systems That would get even weirder if I told you the history of the book. As in, I didn't even know that book was being worked on until I got my complimentary stack of 10 at my home office. And then I did one of those "double-takes" you see on sitcoms. And then people asked me "what's the difference between that and Learning Perl, 2ed?", to which I necessarily replied, "I dunno... I worked on the parts that are the same, not the parts that are different." -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]