{"id":823,"date":"2014-06-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/06\/03\/as-long-as-your-file-names-meet-operating-system-requirements-you-can-use-whatever-you-like-the-rest-is-up-to-you\/"},"modified":"2014-06-03T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:00:00","slug":"as-long-as-your-file-names-meet-operating-system-requirements-you-can-use-whatever-you-like-the-rest-is-up-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20140603-00\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"As long as your file names meet operating system requirements, you can use whatever you like; the rest is up to you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A customer had a question about the MSDN documentation on <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/aa365247\"> rules for legal file names<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> My employees keep naming documents with hyphens in the name. For example, they might name a file <code>Budget-2012-Final.xlsx<\/code>. It is my position that hyphens should not be used in this way, and the document should be named <code>Budget 2012 Final.xlsx<\/code>. Please advise on the use of hyphens within file names. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Hyphens inside file names are legal, and you can use as many as you like, subject to the other rules for file names.<\/p>\n<p> If you are having an argument with your employees about file naming conventions, that&#8217;s something you just need to work out among yourselves. Whatever you decide, the file system will be there for you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A customer had a question about the MSDN documentation on rules for legal file names: My employees keep naming documents with hyphens in the name. For example, they might name a file Budget-2012-Final.xlsx. It is my position that hyphens should not be used in this way, and the document should be named Budget 2012 Final.xlsx. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A customer had a question about the MSDN documentation on rules for legal file names: My employees keep naming documents with hyphens in the name. For example, they might name a file Budget-2012-Final.xlsx. It is my position that hyphens should not be used in this way, and the document should be named Budget 2012 Final.xlsx. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}