My program will take arbitrary strings from the internet and use them for file names. Is there a simple way to remove the bad characters from these strings or do I need to write a custom function for this?
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I have a variable in code that can have file path or url as value. Examples:
http://someDomain/someFile.dat
file://c:\files\someFile.dat
c:\files\someFile.dat
So there are two ways to represent a file and I can't ignore any of them.
What is the correct name for such a variable: path, url, location?
I'm using a 3rd party api so I can'...