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Makes file name safe to use. This function filters out unsafe character sequences from the given file name. The regular expression used is: #\.\.[^A-Za-z0-9\.\_\- ]#. This will take out the combination of two dots (..) followed by anything that is not a letter, a number, a dot (.), an underscore (_), a hyphen (-) or a space ( ).

string makeSafe ( $file )

Example: This example gets the extension of a file.

echo JFile::makeSafe( '..%clock.jpg' );

which will produce:

clock.jpg