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Ruriko
Ruriko

Reputation: 179

Remove all illegal characters

Hi I'm new to regex so could anyone help me? I want to remove all illegal characters in a filename for windows. This is the regex I used

(/[^a-zA-Z ')' 0-9\\-]+/g,'')")

The problem is it's not getting rid of the brackets. For example the original filename was 

[Yuubin Basha (Akizuki Ryou)] Cheap Thrill (Final Fantasy VII) [English] [Dragonfly]

and it renames to

Yuubin Basha Akizuki Ryou) Cheap Thrill Final Fantasy VII) English Dragonfly

It doesn't remove all the brackets. Can anyone help me fix my regex?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 968

Answers (3)

Joey
Joey

Reputation: 354694

File names on Windows can contain all Unicode characters except U+0000 through U+001F and :?*"\/<>|. So you can use

[\x00-\x1f:?\\/*"<>|]

But there are other considerations as well, e.g. a file name cannot end with a space.

Upvotes: 5

jdevelop
jdevelop

Reputation: 12296

/[^a-zA-Z\\)\\(\\]\\[0-9\\-\s]+/g

regex should look like in your case

Upvotes: 1

harshit
harshit

Reputation: 3846

Check it out (/[^a-zA-Z ')' 0-9\\-]+/g,''\)")

Upvotes: 0

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