remove special characters from the folder name - (Moved)

[gero]

I have a problem that when adding the files that have some special character type # in the name they do not appear in the list I wanted these special characters to be removed when showing the name in the list can anyone help?

 

$ lista_pastas = _StringExplode ($ lista_pastas, "#", 0)
    
_ArraySort ($ lista_pastas, 1,1,1) 
$ conta_cds = UBound ($ lista_pastas) 
$ total_cds = $ conta_cds - 1 
$ qtde_casas = StringLen ($ total_cds) 
If $ qtde_casas <2 Then $ qtde_casas = 2
    If $ total_cds> = 1 Then 
    selecionar_cd ($ lista_pastas [1], 1) 
Else 
    MsgBox (4096, "ERRO!", "Não foram encontrados cd's no catálogo indicado!", 3) 
    Sair 
EndIf

[Jos]

Moved to the appropriate forum, as the AutoIt Example Scripts forum very clearly states:

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ps: This was the second time, so please post in the correct support forum from here on!

Edited November 24, 2020 by Jos

[water]

I use the following code to remove invalid characters from a filename with an underscore:

; Replace invalid characters from filename with underscore. When $iFlags = 1 then space won't be replaced
$sFName = (BitAND($iFlags, 1) = 1) ? (StringRegExpReplace($sFName, '[\/:*?"<>|]', '_')) : (StringRegExpReplace($sFName, '[ \/:*?"<>|]', '_'))

Edit (4. April 2022):
As we are talking about file- and foldernames "\" should be removed as well (according to user p4sCH): 

; Replace invalid characters from filename with underscore. When $iFlags = 1 then space won't be replaced
$sFName = (BitAND($iFlags, 1) = 1) ? (StringRegExpReplace($sFName, '[\\\/:*?"<>|]', '_')) : (StringRegExpReplace($sFName, '[ \\\/:*?"<>|]', '_'))

The "solution" above removes invalid characters but the best solution would be to have a list of valid characters and remove everything else 😉 

Edited April 4, 2022 by water

[rudi]

Hi

small section of a script to cleanup filenames:

$RegExKickNonAscii = "(?i)([^a-z0-9-_])" ; all but a-z0-9-_ forbidden

[...]
$FileNameWithExt = StringTrimLeft($ZipArchiv, StringInStr($ZipArchiv, "\", 0, -1))
$FileExt = StringTrimLeft($FileNameWithExt, StringInStr($FileNameWithExt, ".", 0, -1))
$FileName = StringLeft($FileNameWithExt, StringInStr($FileNameWithExt, ".", 0, -1) - 1)
$FileNameAsciiClean = StringRegExpReplace($FileName, $RegExKickNonAscii, "") & "." & $FileExt ; replace-with = "" means "kick" not wanted chars.
[...]

 

[jchd]

  On 12/14/2020 at 12:54 PM, rudi said:

$RegExKickNonAscii = "(?i)([^a-z0-9-_])" ; all but a-z0-9-_ forbidden

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Good but won't work for people whose language use extra ASCII characters, leave alone most of Unicode. Remember most humans on Earth don't use a latin alphabet.

[rudi]

@jchd the OP mentioned: "...I wanted these special characters to be removed ..."

isn't it?

Exactly this was my task as well, for  the script I took these lines from: simply kick all non ASCII chars (ftp server url conformity)

For me it's the German Umlauts "äöüÄÖÜ" and the beautiful "ß"

Edited December 15, 2020 by rudi

[FrancescoDiMuro]

  On 12/15/2020 at 12:47 PM, rudi said:

and the beautiful "ß"

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You mean sseautiful?