Is there a cross-platform Java method to remove filename special chars?

Question

I\'m making a cross-platform application that renames files based on data retrieved online. I\'d like to sanitize the Strings I took from a web API for the current platform.

Answer 1

Here is the code I use:

public static String sanitizeName( String name ) {
    if( null == name ) {
        return "";
    }

    if( SystemUtils.IS_OS_LINUX ) {
        return name.replaceAll( "[\u0000/]+", "" ).trim();
    }

    return name.replaceAll( "[\u0000-\u001f<>:\"/\\\\|?*\u007f]+", "" ).trim();
}

SystemUtils is from Apache commons-lang3