XYplorer Beta Club

hi! i've been experimenting with a rename script for certain files that i have. the name of the file isn't important, so i originally went with the HASH of the file using the hash() function - works great, especially when i shorten it to the first 7 like github format.

today i had the idea to use the digest hash using code i found here in another thread - it too works really well (uses runret with openssl). the problem i face now is there is sometimes a character that is illegal to use in a file name, for example, the / : is there an XY SC that i can use to strip out these types of characters ? something to make it 100% "legal" as a file name.

i'm going through the different commands in the help file now but nothing has stood out. i may not end up using it and just the hash() results, but it would be nice to figure it out.

If you use rename "b" mode, you can use flag 4.

edit: actually you may have to test that because on second thought, that might cause issues with the fwd slash because b mode accepts / cmds, you could manually replace those first with replace(), otherwise just use replacelist or regexreplace to manually replace invalid chars.

$validFileName = regexreplace($fileName, "(<|>|:|""|/|\\|\||\?|\*)");
or alternatively: "[<>:""/\\|?*]"

thank you both! i ended up using the regexreplace in my script as i was using renameitem instead of plain rename. only tested a ~100 files (jpgs) so far, but everything seems to be working as before it would have failed early on due to slashes, etc.