Java String Escape escapeToFileName(String name)

Description

Create escaped filename from a string

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
name	any string

Return

file compatible string

Declaration

public static String escapeToFileName(String name) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2007 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:/* ww  w  .  java 2 s.c  om*/
 *     VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Create escaped filename from a string
     * 
     * @param name any string
     * @return file compatible string
     */
    public static String escapeToFileName(String name) {
        try {
            return java.net.URLEncoder.encode(name, "UTF-8");
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            // never expected
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
}

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