Evaluating Directory names

[aj_nsc]

I'm allowing administrators to create photo albums, each of which will have its own directory. The photo album name will be the directory, only modified to make it a standard web directory. I am changing all white spaces to _, all ' and/or " to nothing and making all letters lowercase. Using regular expressions I do this in three lines

$dirname =~ tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/;
$dirname =~ tr/'|"//;
$dirname =~ tr/\s+/_/;

But I get some really weird results for the directory name sometimes.....anybody have
a) ideas as to whats wrong or
b) a better way?

[aj_nsc]

Not exactly what I used, sorry. This is what it was:

$dirname =~ tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/;
$dirname =~ tr/\'|\"//;
$dirname =~ tr/\s+/\_/;

[Nedals]

The information is a little incomplete for an accurate answer...

But, I'll guess you are posting from a webpage. Are you seeing any URL encoding?. That could give you strange results. Try printing out the 'received' directory name to check.

I'm not 100% sure, but you may be having problems with your second 2 lines.
Try these instead...

$dirname =~ s/('|")//g;
$dirname =~ s/\s+/_/g;

[aj_nsc]

Ridiculous on my part........I tried the substitution (s/) before but I switched to translation (tr/) because it would only get rid of one of the ' or ", but I forgot about the global (g) part of it!!! Thanks a lot Nedals....