Query about file names during file creation????

[isaisa]

hi all,

i am creating the file with the client names which i am getting from the back end[database]. The client name is having different forms i.e. it can have special characters as '-','<','&' etc. I am getting the client names in the '#' seperated array form. I am parsing the array on '#' and creating file with the parsed names.
For example; i am getting array as &quot;aaa#bbb#ccc#&quot;. The expected file names would be &quot;aaa.pdf&quot;,&quot;bbb.pdf&quot; etc.

I am getting error in case the client name consists special chars. I can not insists on the change in the database side as the project is live. I would like to check the clientnmaes.

What i wanted to know is that is there any API in win32 OR is there any MFC class which can validate the name of the client ???? Or else i need to write the function which will validate the received client names in the form of '#' seperated array.


Thanks in advance.
Sanjay

 

[bcravens]

You can search the string for the characters that are prohibited in filenames ( \/:*?&quot;<>| ). The following code will find the prohibited characters.

CString strFileName;
strFileName = &quot;aaaa/.pdf&quot;;
if(strFileName.Find('/',0)!=-1)
{
//prohibited character found

}
else
{
//file name is okay

}

You could set up a char array holding the prohibted characters and loop through this array.

Hope this helps.

 

[isaisa]

hi bcravens,
i did the same thing .... iterate through the array ... i was just intered to know if there is any API provided in SDK to achieve the same ...

Anyway thanks for your help.

Sanjay