Tag: illegal

vbCommon – illegal filename chars

' -- remove illegal filename characters - note ' dim is different in VBA than in VBS

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Function stripBadFileChars(somestring)
dim badchar, xyz 'As String in vba - not vbs

badchar = ":;\|/*?" & chr(34) & chr(26) & vbCrLf & vbTab

for xyz = 1 to len(badchar) 
   somestring = StripCharsFrom(somestring, mid(badchar,xyz,1), "_")
   somestring = replace(somestring, "__", "_")
next ' xyz
   somestring = replace(somestring, "__", "_")

   stripBadFileChars = somestring

End Function ' stripBadFilChars

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