How to remove illegal characters from path and filenames?
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Published on 2008-09-28T15:52:10Z
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I need a robust and simple way to remove illegal path and file characters from a simple string. I've used the below code but it doesn't seem to do anything, what am i missing?
using System;
using System.IO;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string illegal = "\"M<>\"\\a/ry/ h**ad:>> a\\/:*?\"<>| li*tt|le|| la\"mb.?";
illegal = illegal.Trim(Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars());
illegal = illegal.Trim(Path.GetInvalidPathChars());
Console.WriteLine(illegal);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
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