Get a list of invalid path characters in CSharp

Description

The following code shows how to get a list of invalid path characters.

Example


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using System;
using System.IO;

namespace PathExample
{
    class GetCharExample
    {
        public static void Main()
        {

            char[] invalidPathChars = Path.GetInvalidPathChars();

            Console.WriteLine("The following characters are invalid in a path:");
            ShowChars(invalidPathChars);
            Console.WriteLine();
        }

        public static void ShowChars(char[] charArray)
        {
            foreach (char someChar in charArray)
            {
                    Console.WriteLine("{0:c},\t{1:X4}", someChar, (int)someChar);
            }
        }
    }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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