Option to auto-replace illegal chars on input dialogs

[1024mb]

There have been times where I've pasted some text that has illegal characters and I don't notice them or simply forget about them but upon clicking OK the script fails because I use that input as a filename and Windows doesn't accept certain chars.

Could you add an option so XYplorer auto replaces on paste the illegal characters or just don't accept them showing an error?

[Delphine]

What's an "illegal" character ?

[Horst]

And how should XY know what purpose your input has in advance ?
If you make such errors often you can add a routine to your scripts to make a check according to some rules.

[1024mb]

What's an "illegal" character ?

In Windows are: ":", """ (quote), "?", "*", "\", "/", "<", ">" and "|" . Also you can't name "con", "com#" or "nul" any file or folder.

And how should XY know what purpose your input has in advance ?
If you make such errors often you can add a routine to your scripts to make a check according to some rules.

I was thinking by implementing a name input dialog command or adding a param so we can set a dialog to be like that.

[highend]

You could just do it with a:

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    $input = '"a<>b|*c?d\e/f'; // You'd be using an input() here... 
    $input = regexreplace($input, "(^(con|com#|nul)$|[""?*\\/<>|])", "_");

[1024mb]

You could just do it with a:

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    $input = '"a<>b|*c?d\e/f'; // You'd be using an input() here... 
    $input = regexreplace($input, "(^(con|com#|nul)$|[""?*\\/<>|])", "_");

I will try that, thank you!