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<blockquote data-quote="kiwijunglist" data-source="post: 551230" data-attributes="member: 76888">Re: App to Copy Artwork and Details to Movie Folder<a href="http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=319540#319540" target="_blank">Convert text string to acceptable filename format</a>Below example will convert movietitle=&quot;Æon Flùx*&quot; into movietitle=&quot;Aeon Flux&quot;Obviously the special character list should be expanded.[code]txt=Æon Flùx*MsgBox % txt;replace special characters with non special equivalentsreplace=àa|áa|âa|ãa|äa|åa|çc|èe|ée|êe|ëe|ìi|íi|îi|ùuLoop, Parse, Replace, |{StringSplit, Part, A_LoopFieldStringReplace, txt, txt, %Part1%, %Part2%, All};replace Æ with AEtxt := RegExReplace(txt, &quot;Æ&quot;, &quot;AE&quot;);replace æ with aetxt := RegExReplace(txt, &quot;æ&quot;, &quot;ae&quot;);replace space with underscoretxt := RegExReplace(txt, &quot; &quot;, &quot;_&quot;);remove any chars that remain that are not &quot;a-zA-Z0-9_&quot;txt := RegExReplace(txt, &quot;\W&quot;, &quot;&quot;);replace underscore with spacetxt := RegExReplace(txt, &quot;_&quot;, &quot; &quot;)MsgBox % txt[/code]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kiwijunglist, post: 551230, member: 76888"] [b]Re: App to Copy Artwork and Details to Movie Folder[/b] [url=http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=319540#319540]Convert text string to acceptable filename format[/url] Below example will convert movietitle="Æon Flùx*" into movietitle="Aeon Flux" Obviously the special character list should be expanded. [code] txt=Æon Flùx* MsgBox % txt ;replace special characters with non special equivalents replace=àa|áa|âa|ãa|äa|åa|çc|èe|ée|êe|ëe|ìi|íi|îi|ùu Loop, Parse, Replace, | { StringSplit, Part, A_LoopField StringReplace, txt, txt, %Part1%, %Part2%, All } ;replace Æ with AE txt := RegExReplace(txt, "Æ", "AE") ;replace æ with ae txt := RegExReplace(txt, "æ", "ae") ;replace space with underscore txt := RegExReplace(txt, " ", "_") ;remove any chars that remain that are not "a-zA-Z0-9_" txt := RegExReplace(txt, "\W", "") ;replace underscore with space txt := RegExReplace(txt, "_", " ") MsgBox % txt [/code] [/QUOTE]

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