Illegal filename

Hi,
I built an user interface to allow free filenames to save data. unfortunately some user enters "/" and ":". those characters are illegal in windows environment. when the program tries to save the file either nothing happens and all datas are gone or an error message occurs.
how can I prevent this. do I really have to check the filename to detect any possible illegal characters on it? or is there an easier way.
thanks for the help
yves

Hi,
There are several solutions...
If you're using LabVIEW 7.x, you can create an event structure and check
"key down", "key repeat" and "value change" to do the filtering.
In LabVIEW <7, you can do this in a while loop, but it's ugly.
Perhaps the easiest way it not to use a string control, but a path control.
In LabVIEW >6, you can have a browse button as a bonus. The user can now
browse to different paths, so if you don't want this, you still have to
check the result.
Regards,
Wiebe.
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> Hi,
> I built an user interface to allow free filenames to save data.
> unfortunately some user enters "/" and ":". those characters are
> illegal in windows environment.
when the program tries to save the
> file either nothing happens and all datas are gone or an error message
> occurs.
> how can I prevent this. do I really have to check the filename to
> detect any possible illegal characters on it? or is there an easier
> way.
>
> thanks for the help
> yves

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by gb:
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3. A filename is too long.
4. The filename contains illegal characters.
5. Copying to an MS-DOS filesystem which has filename lengths restricted to 31 characters for FAT32. It also does not recognize a number of characters that are legal on HFS+ including: ",',!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,\,|
If you must transfer files to a PC I suggest you put them into a .zip archive with fully legal MS-DOS filenames.
The permissions errors are normal. They are innocuous messages that will recur each time you repair permissions.

Filename from payload - FTP receiver adapter

Hello everyone!
I have a scenario wherein I need to get the value from a field coming from an IDOC and then give that value as the "filename" of the file that is saved in the FTP folder.
IDOC > XI > FILE
For example, if /ORDERS05/IDOC/E1EDK02/BELNR = 620000123
then I want the name of the file to be saved in the FTP folder to be 620000123.xml
I understand you may use the 'variable substitution' property in the FTP receiver adapter, but subsequent attempts at trying to configure that property have resulted in errors. Can anyone help me out?
Warm regards,
Glenn

do u have recordset name (root message)
For Ex: If you want to refer to the field which is bold
below is your variable substuition:
payload:root,1,e1,1,e2,2
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<root>
<dummy>
     <e1>
        <e2>Data_1</e2>
        <f/>
       <g attr="abc">text</g>
        <e2>Data_2</e2>
     </e1>
</dummy>
<e1>
     <e2>illegal/value</e2>
     <f/>
     <g attr="abc">text</g>
     <e2 attr="fghij">Example Value</e2>
   </e1>
</root>
Similarly
for your strucutre:
<MS_MT>
<order>
      <number>
the variable substuition would be
payload:MS_MT,1,order,1,number,1
you have to give complete XML to arrive to this value.

6230i bad jpeg filename suffix - spurious " charac...

I have received a MMS (picture) from a Nokia 6101 on Vodafone (my mother's), to my 6230i on Virgin. I can view the text and image in the MMS. If I view the details however the file is called Image001.jpg"
A spurious " character has been appended to the '.jpg' suffix of the image file.
Because of this I am unable to save the image as the 6230i auto-appends the existing file suffix which contains an illegal character - the phone shows an error message 'Cannot use /:\*,?;"|<>¥↲'
I am unable to view MMS in PC Suite - they do not show up. So I'm basically stuck. Not a serious problem just a little annoying. Is there anyway I can hack the phone memory directly to delete the " or rename the image ?
If I put a Virgin SIM in the 6101 & send to my 6230i (Virgin) this does not happen. So I don't think either phone is the culprit & I'm wondering about some issue with transmission from Vodafone to Virgin - MMS gateway - if such a thing exists ?
Any suggestions gratefully received beyond contact customer support for the networks - I'll do that when I get a chance.
TIA,
DBMessage Edited by dvbdvb on 30-Dec-2005
03:16 PM

Vodafone say its not their problem as MMS sends/receives ok on their network.
Virgin have tried to help but so far are at a loss. As the Virgin network is really T-Mobile, I don't know how much Virgin themselves can do.
Why I think its the phone is that even though the network may be the cause, the phone should deal with it.
If I forward the MMS with the extra " out of the phone to my web email it comes through fine. So it is able to parse/transmit the message just can't interpret the filename itself when trying to save the image.

Filenames within the Aperture container

I have recently bought Aperture and, having transferred all my photographs into it (>200Gb), I am now trying to move the Aperture library to my file server where I have plenty of storage space. However, when I tried to copy the file to my server which is running RHEL4 I get the error message that the filename is either too long or contains illegal characters. I've lookind inside the Aperture container and have found folders with names like "2006-09-13 @ 07/27/44 pm -1importgroup" which is what is likely to be the problem. Can these filenames be changed or at least avoided in the future and if so how? The folders relate to imported folders of images from my archive drives.

Though this is arguably a MacOS bug as it should replace the '/' character (valid in HFS+ but not in standard unix-a-like filesystems) with ':' when passing it out over the file sharing protocol in question (I'd guess the original poster is using SMB talking to Samba).

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