On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Tommy Nordgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
