Special characters in folder/filenames

[spin35]

I encountered a problem the other day when I recorded a program that had an exclamation mark in its title.
The recording was fine, but my postprocess.bat didn't like it.

The folder and filenames looked like:
D:\NextPVR_recordings\Bushwacked!\Bushwacked!.S03E03.ext

but the batch file was reading the path as  
D:\NextPVR_recordings\Bushwacked.S03E03.ext and thought that  !\Bushwacked! was a variable.  Clearly it fell over from that point on.

I guess the fix is to copy %1 into a variable and go from there, but my code uses various forms of extended parameters %~dpnx throughout so I'd have to create multiple variables for each form used.
Just wondering if there is a setting somewhere that will force NextPVR to use "Windows_Friendly" characters in folder and filenames like the yt-dlp option :

Code:

--windows-filenames             Force filenames to be Windows-compatible

The other option is to not use Bushwacked! for test recordings in the first place, and to rename the folder and files if it happens again, then run PostProcess manually.
I thought I'd report this as an observation - it's not a serious issue.

Thanks for all the great work.

[mvallevand]

The exclamation mark is windows compatible though so perhaps you are using delayed expansion in your script and need to adjust the script?

Martin

[spin35]

Yes, I am using delayed expansion which causes the name to be parsed as a variable name.  Yes, I could adjust the script, but that's a hassle as I'm using For /F loops where I need the variables to be updated.
Happy to just let this slide, as it would be a rare occasion when this problem arises.