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Re: Using a string as filepath
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Re: Using a string as filepath


  • Subject: Re: Using a string as filepath
  • From: Tommy Nordgren <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:22:42 +0100


On Nov 27, 2008, at 1:09 AM, Knut Lorenzen wrote:

Dear list,

I would like to name a file according to an user defined entry. However, the user's name entry might be illegal as a filepath, containing illegal characters for a pathname like "." or "-" as 1st character, "/", ":", etc.

I've looked into the Cocoa docs for NSString and NSFileManager to no avail.

Is there a recommended way to "clean" an NSString in order to get a valid filepath? One could simply replace all suspicious characters with an underscore (or something else), but that is not very elegant and feels like fighting the framework.

Cheers,

Knut

	try using -[NSString fileSystemRepresentation]

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Tommy Nordgren
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