folders with punctuation cannot able to open

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i am working vb.net project .i save folder path to database using textbox and i give link to the path ,when i click link it will open folder,it's working fine except punctuations, one of my folder contains d'ambrossio this folder cannot opened can u please help me

Posted 20-Sep-11 19:31pm

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Alan Burkhart · Answer 1 · 2011-09-20T20:11:00

You will need to rename the folder without the ' character. Use the Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars to return an array of type Char to see all the characters you cannot use when naming files and folders.

You can also use Path.GetInvalidPathChars to get a Char array of illegal path characters.

Ganesan Natarajan · Answer 2 · 2011-09-20T20:26:00

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hi

try this

Replace(folder_path, "'", "''")

Posted 20-Sep-11 20:26pm

Ganesan Natarajan