[thelist] regex to validate filenames

Chrome admin at chrome.me.uk
Fri Dec 1 11:48:15 CST 2006


My best advice is to get The Regex Coach and test it out with that...
Sometimes needs a little tweaking depending on the language you need to run
the regex in but it's usually spot on

It's all I use now for testing

Dan

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
>bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Adams
>Sent: 01 December 2006 16:04
>To: thelist
>Subject: [thelist] regex to validate filenames
>
>I'm writing a regex to validate filenames. I've got it pretty much
>worked out, but it's getting a little unwieldy, so I thought I'd ask for
>suggestions for simplifying it.
>
>Basically, I want to validate a filename, checking to make sure that it
>is a gif or jpg, and that it has no illegal characters in it. The files
>are stored on a Linux box, so I'm using that as my basis for filenaming
>restrictions. My understanding is that these characters should be
>avoided in filenames on Linux:
>* : \ / < > | " ? NULL (and all non-printing characters; i.e. \n) I also
>want to make sure the filename can't start with whitespace or "."
>(which indicates a hidden file).
>
>So here's what I'm thinking:
>- start of string:
>  ^
>- one allowable character, except not whitespace or ".":
>  [\w`~!@#$%^&()\-=+[\]{};',]
>- 0 or more allowable characters:
>  [\w`~!@#$%^&()\-=+[\]{};', \t.]*
>- a dot:
>  \.
>- an allowed file extension:
>  (GIF|JPG)
>- end of string:
>  $
>
>So I have:
>^[\w`~!@#$%^&()\-=+[\]{};',][\w`~!@#$%^&()\-=+[\]{};', \t.]*\.(GIF|JPG)$
>
>I tried to figure out a shortcut for specifying "one or more allowed
>characters with the first not being whitespace or '.'", so that I
>wouldn't have to repeat the list of allowed characters, but I had no
>luck.
>
>Suggestions?
>
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