binary vs. text?

Chris Sheffield cmsheffield at gmail.com
Mon Dec 11 17:29:47 EST 2006


Thanks, Eric. I shouldn't have a problem with Sarah's method since  
these files will not be downloaded from the internet at all.

On Dec 11, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Sarah's answer sounds good (I mean fully reliable) but may appear  
> unusable with heavy files you download from the internet.
> As for us we use another method based on statistics by checking  
> charToNum's chars.
> On Windows, it appears that checking 60 chars and finding more than  
> 3 chars the charToNum of which is less than 9 or greater than 175  
> gives an "almost" fully reliable result ;-)
>
> Le 11 déc. 06 à 23:09, Chris Sheffield a écrit :
>
>> 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?
>
>
> Best Regards from Paris,
> Eric Chatonet
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