Re: Replace characters in filename
Re: Replace characters in filename
- Subject: Re: Replace characters in filename
- From: Rick Davis <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:39:49 -0400
On Jun 12, 2004, at 5:54 PM, Ken wrote:
Message: 17
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:51:30 -0400
From: Graff <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Replace characters in filename
To: 'email@hidden', users
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On Jun 12, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Rick Davis wrote:
How would I find certain characters (any of a list of 13) in a
filename and replace them with one common character?
Heh, I just posted this yesterday. It's the same solution for cleaning
up files so they don't have any non-Windows characters, I just flipped
the logic in the CleanNames handler. Just change the
disallowedCharacters property to contain the characters you want to
strip and the replacementCharacter property to the character you want
to replace them with. If you set the replacementCharacter property to
"" then the script will just strip out the disallowed characters.
You are applesolutely right. I wrote a script a couple of weeks ago to
help teachers transfer their documents from the Mac network to their
district windoze network. It converts their Appleworks documents to
either Word or Excel depending upon the file type. It also truncates
the name to 27 characters and adds the dot plus the appropriate
extension. I was just made aware of the "disallowed characters" on the
darkside. I just ran your script and it worked great. Now I hope I
can figure out how to incorporate it into my script to make it a one
step operation for the already over-worked teachers. Someone suggested
I also strip or replace common windoze expressions like "com1 thru
com9, lpt1 thru lpt9, con, nul, and prn". Any thoughts on that
suggestion? I think I am going to assume that no user has a file saved
with any of those expressions and just let them know to manually change
any that may.
Thanks for getting me over what was starting to look like a mountain
instead of a mole hill.
Rick Davis
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