[Gambas-user] How to manage filenames whit invalid characters in gambas.

[Bruce Steers]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2023, 21:22 Bruce Steers, <bsteers4 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 at 21:06, Martin <mbelmonte at belmotek.net> wrote:
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>> El 15/2/23 a las 16:50, T Lee Davidson escribió:
>> > I am not aware of any. System issues like that can be handled in a
>> shell
>> > relatively easily.
>> ok, indeed I use a bash script, but I want to know if there, in Gambas,
>> are something to do that.
>> Regards.
>> Martin.
>>
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> Well no , because they are not "invalid" characters.
> you could write something pretty easily using Replace and Move
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> the odd chars seem to be where the dot should be.
> for any 3 letter extension something like this should do the trick...
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> If sFile[sFile.Len-4]<>"." then Move sFile to Replace(sFile,
> sFile[sFile.Len-4], ".")
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> BruceS
>

Are they non utf-8 chars? you may need to use String.Replace() as the
String. Methods handle non utf-8.

BruceS
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