How to strip illegal characters before trying to save filenames?

Question

I was able to find how to use the GetInvalidFileNameChars() method in a PowerShell script. However, it seems to also filter out whitespace (which is what I DON

Answer 1

I wanted spaces to replace all the illegal characters so space is replaced with space

$Filename = $ADUser.SamAccountName
[IO.Path]::GetinvalidFileNameChars() | ForEach-Object {$Filename = $Filename.Replace($_," ")}
$Filename = "folder\" + $Filename.trim() + ".txt"