Re: Using a string as filepath
Re: Using a string as filepath
- Subject: Re: Using a string as filepath
- From: "Clark Cox" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:47:51 -0800
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Tommy Nordgren
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> try using -[NSString fileSystemRepresentation]
fileSystemRepresentation changes nothing about *which* characters are
in the string, only *how* they are encoded.
--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
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