XYplorer Beta Club

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?

What's an "illegal" character ?

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.

Delphine wrote: ↑23 May 2021 18:36 What's an "illegal" character ?

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

Horst wrote: ↑23 May 2021 18:41 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.

You could just do it with a:

highend wrote: ↑23 May 2021 19:48 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!