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Old 08-07-2008
string with invalid characters

This is a pretty straight-forward question. Within a program of mine, I have a string that's going to be used as a filename, but it might have some invalid characters in it that wouldn't be valid in a filename. If there are any invalid characters, I want to get rid of them and essentially squeeze the remaining characters together to form a valid filename.

I can't seem to find any string function that might help to assist in making this a more efficient than simply checking the string char by char, moving the valid chars into another string while ignoring the invalid ones, creating a valid filename.

Just thought I'd ask and see what kind of input I would receive. Thank you.
 
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putenv(3C)																putenv(3C)

NAME
putenv() - change or add value to environment SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
string points to a string of the form name=value. makes the value of the environment variable name equal to value by altering an existing variable or creating a new one. In either case, the string pointed to by string becomes part of the environment, so altering the string changes the environment. The space used by string is no longer used once a new string-defining name is passed to EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Locale The category determines the interpretation of characters in string as single- and/or multi-byte characters. International Code Set Support Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. DIAGNOSTICS
returns non-zero if it was unable to obtain enough space via for an expanded environment, or if an invalid multibyte character sequence was encountered in the string argument; otherwise it returns zero. ERRORS
fails under the following conditions: [ENOMEM] There is insufficient space to expand the environment. [EILSEQ] An invalid multibyte character sequence was encountered in the string argument. WARNINGS
manipulates the environment pointed to by environ, and can be used in conjunction with However, envp (the third argument to main) is not changed. This routine uses to enlarge the environment (see malloc(3C)). After is called, environmental variables are not in alphabetical order. A potential error is to call with an automatic variable as the argument, then exit the calling function while string is still part of the environment. SEE ALSO
exec(2), getenv(3C), malloc(3C), environ(5), thread_safety(5). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
putenv(3C)