[answered]How to determine plaintext content?

[bdeshi]

Hey all, What's the best way (if there is) to determine if a file content is readable plaintext?
I want to display the content as is, or display the raw hex (using hexdump with r switch) if the content is not plaintext.
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 if (file content is textual){
  $data =  readfile($srcfile); //read in as text
 } elseif (file content is not textual)
  $data = hexdump(readfile($srcfile,b),,r); //read in data as hex
}

</pseudocode>

[TheQwerty]

How about the filetype SC?

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help('idh_scripting_comref.htm#idh_sc_filetype');

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[bdeshi]

You make me wonder about my eyesight.

[TheQwerty]

Whatever could you mean?

[bdeshi]

In any case, one thing led to another, I had an idea from this topic and now I [have to || need to || want to] write the whole script all over again. [ || ]
Thanks.

[PeterH]

In any case, one thing led to another, I had an idea from this topic and now I [have to || need to || want to] write the whole script all over again. [ || ]
Thanks.

I think it doesn't matter:
- it's only pseudo code
- it misses an "{"


Sorry - I couldn't resist (again)