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post	File Name Sanitizer One-Liner	2011-08-24	File Name Sanitizer One-Liner	programming	command-line

I find myself often having to sanitize file names and paths because I’m creating files from some kind of user input that I’m unsure about. I found this handy way of doing this in one line today:

fileName = Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars().Aggregate(fileName, (name, c) => name.Replace(c, ‘_’));

Note that the same goes for paths. The only thing that changes is the static method you use from Path:

filePath = Path.GetInvalidPathChars().Aggregate(filePath , (name, c) => name.Replace(c, ‘_’));