Re: check whether file is ascii or ebcdic

[Ramprasad A Padmanabhan]

Nntp.Perl.Org wrote:
Hi

How do I check whether a file is in ebcdic or ascii format ?

Thanks,
Nitish

perldoc -f -x

That tells me how to find if a file is ascii text

if(-T $file) {
  print "$file is an ascii text file \n";
} else {
   print "Not an ascii text file \n";
}


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