On Monday August 20, 2007, "David Weintraub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would use a Perl script to read the first 8000 or so bytes of a > file and look for characters outside of what you'd expect to be > ASCII range.
Using Perl, the -T (for text) and -B (for binary) flags do pretty much exactly that and work really well. For example: $myfile = "some.file" if ( -B "$myfile" ) { # file is binary } else { # file is text } - Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]