How to sanitize a file name using LINQ
From this article you can learn
how to sanitize a file name using simple LINQ query.
SanitizeFilename function takes two parameters:
- name - filename that needs to be sanitized
- replaceChar - char used to replace all invalid file name characters
Implementation is available both in
C# and
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Implementation
System.Linq namespace needs to be put in
usings.
public static string SanitizeFileName(string name, char replaceChar)
{
return Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars().Aggregate(name, (current, c) => current.Replace(c, replaceChar));
}
Public Shared Function SanitizeFileName(name As String, replaceChar As Char) As String
Return Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars().Aggregate(name, Function(current, c) current.Replace(c, replaceChar))
End Function