ansaurus

Question

Answer 1

+2 A:

This seems quite straightforward:

/^[\w.-]+$/

SilentGhost 2010-10-07 11:50:47

/^[\w\-]+$/ : you need a backslash for the hyphen

Fabrizio Calderan 2010-10-07 11:52:59

@Fabrizio: no you don't

SilentGhost 2010-10-07 11:54:00

@Fabrizio: Not at the end of a capture group.

Felix Kling 2010-10-07 11:54:00

oh I forgot one thing, dots(.) are allowed too offcourse for filenames

yens resmann 2010-10-07 11:54:13

@yens: fixed that.

SilentGhost 2010-10-07 11:55:45

@SilentGhost thanks, that's it!

yens resmann 2010-10-07 11:57:53

Before the regex match it should be ensured that the filename is not equal with `.` and `..`.

splash 2010-10-07 12:11:37

@splash thanks forgot about that!

yens resmann 2010-10-07 15:07:50

RegExp for clean file and folder names