These characters are invalid in the file name. See

Invalid Characters in Path & Name

I've created a function based on this code to strip out bad characters from the file name.

>I just found out that I am omitting one important information. The column data ends with date (i.e. 02/05/2009) and PUTFILE() stopping at 2009. what's weird it start from the right side. when I deleted the date part, it worked fine.
>test it.
>I did not find any documentation about this behavior.
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>Any solution other than STRTRAN()