Re: Lpeg for a filename

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 25/11/2013 20:28, Georgios Petsagourakis wrote:
> I am trying to get lpeg to catch filenames.
>
> I found that there is a set of not allowed characters for the filenames or
> extensions which are the following:
>
> / \ ? % * : | " < > .

Curious to ask this without specifying which filesystem you target!

% and . are perfectly legal in Windows' filenames... Unless you exclude all characters 
rejected by all systems...

Note that Windows rejects some specific names, like con or prn...

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