[gpfsug-discuss] Special characters in filenames

[Alec]

Would it not just be easier to eliminate all characters you deem not to be
"stupid" and then match against the remainder?

ie. /[^a-zA-Z.]+/ and then go from there?

On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 3:23 PM Jonathan Buzzard <
jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> After another support incident that eventually transpired to be down to
> the user using what I will call stupid characters in their filenames (we
> include a section on not doing this in our mandatory training so no
> excuse) I have been musing on using the policy engine to periodically
> produce lists of files that have stupid characters in their filenames so
> we can proactively educate the users and get them to rename their files
> to something sensible :-)
>
> The issue is of course the stupid characters include all the regular
> expression wildcard characters in addition to \n, \r and backticks. I am
> coming up short on escaping them correctly in REGEX() for the policy
> engine.
>
> The documentation appears to be devoid of help on the subject, because
> of course only an fool would be including these characters in their
> filenames...
>
> Anyone any idea on how to do this?
>
>
> JAB.
>
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