What special characters are allowed for file names on Android? ~!@#$%^&*()_+/\., Also, can I save file with Unicode name?

What is the most cross platform way of removing bad path characters (e.g. "\" or ":" on Windows) in Python? Solution Because there seems to be no ideal solution I decided to be relatively restric...

Is there a way to check if a String meant for a path has invalid characters, in .Net? I know I could iterate over each character in Path.InvalidPathChars to see if my String contained one, but I'd ...

I'm getting this JavaScript error on my console: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL This is my code: var foo = 'bar';​ It's super simple, as you can see. How could it b...

I asked a question about this a few months back, and I thought the answer had solved my problem, but I ran into the problem again and the solution didn't work for me. I'm importing a CSV: orders...

I'm making an Asteroid Field for an Asteroid Game in my Object Oriented Programming class and I am receiving an illegal character error: '\u200b'. The issue seems to be happening on line 12. (The l...

Let's say I have a data.frame, like so: x <- c(1:10,1:10,1:10,1:10,1:10,1:10,1:10,1:10,1:10,1:10) df <- data.frame("Label 1"=x,"Label 2"=rnorm(100)) head(df,3) returns: Label.1 Label.2...

this code basically reformats an xls file and saves it as an xlsx. however it uses G2 & H2 to grab the filename for the newly formatted file. So that means certain characters can't be in the f...

I have a CSV file where the first "cell" is just an int, 9, in this case. The next line is 10 for the first "cell" and so on. When I do $array = fgetcsv($file); the first cell of the first line has...

I was creating some build definitions in TFS2010 without problem until now. MSBUILD Command: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe /nologo /noconsolelogger "C:\Builds\Nept...

Let's say I have the following data frame: a <- runif(10) dd <- as.data.frame(t(a)) names(dd) <- c("ID", "a", "a2", "b", "b2", "f", "XXX", "1", "4", "8") In dplyr, there is a nice way t...

I am getting an "Illegal characters in path" error when doing chdir commands in Iron Python. This is happening in run time with my code, but even in the Iron Python console it has this issue. I'm u...

In C# (.net 4.0 and 4.5 / vs2010 and vs12) when I serialize an object containing a string having an illegal character using XMLSerializer, no error is thrown. However, when I deserialize that resul...

I'm looking for a regular expression that removes illegal characters. But I don't know what the characters will be. For example: In a process, I want my string to match ([a-zA-Z0-9/-]*). So I wou...

The file in question is not under my control. Most byte sequences are valid UTF-8, it is not ISO-8859-1 (or an other encoding). I want to do my best do extract as much information as possible. Th...

I was thinking about Registering an Application to a URL Protocol and I'd like to know, what characters are allowed in a scheme? Some examples: h323 (has numbers) h323:[<user>@]<host>...

I am working on a form with the possiblity for the user to use illegal/special characters in the string that is to be submitted to the database. I want to escape/negate these characters in the stri...

Could someone provide (or point me to a list) of all the illegal characters in the XFS filesystem? I'm writing an app that needs to sanitize filenames. EDIT: Okay, so POSIX filesystems should all...

I am using Path.Combine, and one of the strings contain a Unicode characters. I get {System.ArgumentException} exception; illegal characters in path. According to MSDN filepath/name can have unicod...