C#•9mo ago

Path.Combine says "Illegal character in path"

This is the path. Why is it illegal? C:\Users\itsbl\AppData\LocalLow\bl4ckdev x XDev\Airborne\Levels\Untitled (143).level

7 Replies

Mayor McCheese•9mo ago

Are you @ing the string?

bl4ckOP•9mo ago

well there isn't anything to @ since it's like this

Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, "Levels", dddwetgergtrt)

Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, "Levels", dddwetgergtrt)

Mayor McCheese•9mo ago

Ah I don't see anything illegal, can you show more code?

bl4ckOP•9mo ago

Well, this is pretty much the code that throws the error, every file-related operation does it as well

         if (!File.Exists(Path.Combine(openedCampaignFolder, dddwetgergtrt)))
            {
                File.Copy(Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, "Levels", dddwetgergtrt),
                Path.Combine(openedCampaignFolder, dddwetgergtrt)); //C:\Users\itsbl\AppData\Local\Temp\w8k55zzl.702\Untitled (143).level
            }

         if (!File.Exists(Path.Combine(openedCampaignFolder, dddwetgergtrt)))
            {
                File.Copy(Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, "Levels", dddwetgergtrt),
                Path.Combine(openedCampaignFolder, dddwetgergtrt)); //C:\Users\itsbl\AppData\Local\Temp\w8k55zzl.702\Untitled (143).level
            }

Mayor McCheese•9mo ago

Check your string against https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.path.getinvalidpathchars?view=net-8.0

Path.GetInvalidPathChars Method (System.IO)

Gets an array containing the characters that are not allowed in path names.

bl4ckOP•9mo ago

Nevermind, got it it was a newline 😶

Mayor McCheese•9mo ago

You can always validate the path characters using the method above

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Path.Combine says "Illegal character in path"