Identifying Characters in a String?

[Casmat]

Hey!

I have a label in my project that renames a file, I have put a button below to submit the text in the label. I put a if statement to check the text for unsupported characters in file naming: \ / : * ? " < > |. I thought of making the if statement check the string using the contains() function and putting the characters above into the parentheses of that function. However, the characters don't really play nice when I tried putting them in the parentheses! any ideas? Thanks again!

[d.healey]

Yeah you're going to run into issues using quotes and slashes because they have specific uses within a string.

You probably should use one of the regex functions. ChatGPT will help with regex, also this site - https://regex101.com/

[Casmat]

@d-healey the regular escapes won't work with hise due to the syntax, but the unicode escape and hexadecimal escape doesn't work as well? I tried using the Engine.matchesRegex() function inputting the regex string as "\u005C|\u002F|\u003A|\u002A|\u003F|\u0022|\u003C|\u003E|\u007C" for unicode and "\x5C|\x2F|\x3A|\x2A|\x3F|\x22|\x3C|\x3E|\x7C" in hex format

[Casmat]

@d-healey haha! got it to work, i love using regex! "\\x5C|\\x2F|\\x3A|\\x2A|\\x3F|\\x22|\\x3C|\\x3E|\\x7C"