Regex to validate a filename
file, java, regex
Solution
If your idea is only to exclude ilegal and space char you can use something like:
`'^[^*&%\s]+$'`
where you can add any "ilegal" char into the list of chars (in this case it ignores *, &, % and space) `\s` is the space! The `^` inside the `[]` is part of the regex syntax it means: do not match any chars inside `[]`.
Problem
I need to validate a in a method like this. ``` validateFileName(Editable s) { String filtered_str = s.toString(); if (filtered_str.matches(".*[regexp].*")) { filtered_str = filtered_str.replaceAll("[regxp]", ""); s.clear(); s.append(filtered_str);} ``` Which regexps should i use to exclude all illegal characters and white-spaces? I'm using linux