Validate a file name on Windows

public static boolean isValidName(String text)
{
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("^[^/./\\:*?\"<>|]+$");
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text);
    boolean isMatch = matcher.matches();
    return isMatch;
}

Does this method guarantee a valid filename on Windows?

Solution 1:

Given the requirements specified in the previously cited MSDN documentation, the following regex should do a pretty good job:

public static boolean isValidName(String text)
{
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(
        "# Match a valid Windows filename (unspecified file system).          \n" +
        "^                                # Anchor to start of string.        \n" +
        "(?!                              # Assert filename is not: CON, PRN, \n" +
        "  (?:                            # AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, \n" +
        "    CON|PRN|AUX|NUL|             # COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9,     \n" +
        "    COM[1-9]|LPT[1-9]            # LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5,     \n" +
        "  )                              # LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9...     \n" +
        "  (?:\\.[^.]*)?                  # followed by optional extension    \n" +
        "  $                              # and end of string                 \n" +
        ")                                # End negative lookahead assertion. \n" +
        "[^<>:\"/\\\\|?*\\x00-\\x1F]*     # Zero or more valid filename chars.\n" +
        "[^<>:\"/\\\\|?*\\x00-\\x1F\\ .]  # Last char is not a space or dot.  \n" +
        "$                                # Anchor to end of string.            ", 
        Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.UNICODE_CASE | Pattern.COMMENTS);
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text);
    boolean isMatch = matcher.matches();
    return isMatch;
}

Note that this regex does not impose any limit on the length of the filename, but a real filename may be limited to 260 or 32767 chars depending on the platform.

Solution 2:

Not enough,in Windows and DOS, some words might also be reserved and can not be used as filenames.

CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL
COM0, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9
LPT0, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

See~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename

Edit：

Windows usually limits file names to 260 characters. But the file name must actually be shorter than that, since the complete path (such as C:\Program Files\filename.txt) is included in this character count.

This is why you might occasionally encounter an error when copying a file with a very long file name to a location that has a longer path than its current location.