How to strip illegal characters before trying to save filenames?

Question

I was able to find how to use the GetInvalidFileNameChars() method in a PowerShell script. However, it seems to also filter out whitespace (which is what I DON

Answer 1

Please try this one-liner with the same underlying function.

to match

'?Some "" File Name <:.txt' -match ("[{0}]"-f (([System.IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars()|%{[regex]::Escape($_)}) -join '|'))

to replace

'?Some "" File Name <:.txt' -replace ("[{0}]"-f (([System.IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars()|%{[regex]::Escape($_)}) -join '|')),'_'