[Zope] Checking string for specific characters

Andreas Jung Andreas Jung" <andreas@zope.com
Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:32:21 -0400


What about using a PythonScript ? Either you iterate over
all single character and match it against a given string
containing all valid characters or use a regular expression.
In this case you use allow_module() to allow using the
re module inside PythonScripts.

Andreas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gitte Wange" <gitte@mmmanager.org>
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Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 04:44
Subject: [Zope] Checking string for specific characters


> Hello,
> 
> I need to create some filenames from the titles of some objects.
> In order to make these filenames correct, I need to create a function
> that checks the title string in order to see if there are any
> "non-allowed" characters in the string and strip them.
> 
> Right know I am doing a string.replace for the characters that aren't
> allowed, but it would be much easier to specify what characters that
> _is_ allowed.
> 
> I guess the function that adds a new object to Zope does it ... but I
> cannot find that function.
> 
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