binary vs. text?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/12/06 12:09 AM, "Chris Sheffield" <cmsheffield at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Chris,

> Does anyone have a sure fire way to determine if a file is binary or
> text?
> 
> I have need to create an import utility that will import data from a
> text file (csv, tab-delimited, etc) into a database, but I'd like to
> check the file before doing anything else just to make sure it is in
> fact text and not binary.
> 
> Any thoughts?

If file follow unicode rules, it have special signature on start

I did not hear about such ability define kind of file..

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