Posted by Alvaro G Vicario on 08/03/05 13:28

*** Chuck Anderson wrote/escribió (Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:43:27 -0600):
> I am trying to work out the preg_match command to check windows
> filenames for illegal characters and I can not seem to get it right.
> The disallowed characters are \/:*?"<>|
>
> I can not figure out the correct syntax.

Hope this helps (not tested):

$forbidden=preg_quote('\/:*?"<>', '/');
preg_match('/[' . $forbidden . ']/', $filename);


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