Properly quote file names in the regexp used to extract backup times. #2688
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If a backup filename contains certain special characters, then an exception is thrown when used in the regular expression to extract the time from the backup filename. To protect against this the metaquoting escape sequence (`\Q...\E`) is needed. This fixes issue openwebwork#2680.
… the File Manager. This prevents deletion of files that have parentheses in the name.
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If a backup filename contains certain special characters, then an exception is thrown when used in the regular expression to extract the time from the backup filename. To protect against this the metaquoting escape sequence (
\Q...\E) is needed.This fixes issue #2680.
Edit: Also allow parenthesis in file names in the file manager. I went to delete the file I created to test the first part of this pull request, and discovered that I could not because the FileManager
checkPWDmethod considers parentheses (or really anything except-_./A-Z0-9~,) to be an illegal character. This probably needs to be revisited. There are lots of other valid characters in file names that this does not allow.