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[answered]How to determine plaintext content?
Posted: 04 Aug 2014 19:01
by 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.
<pseudocode>
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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>
Re: How to determine plaintext content?
Posted: 04 Aug 2014 19:14
by TheQwerty
How about the
filetype SC?
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help('idh_scripting_comref.htm#idh_sc_filetype');
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Re: How to determine plaintext content?
Posted: 04 Aug 2014 19:19
by bdeshi
You make me wonder about my eyesight.
Re: How to determine plaintext content?
Posted: 04 Aug 2014 19:26
by TheQwerty
Whatever could
you mea
n? 
Re: [answered]How to determine plaintext content?
Posted: 04 Aug 2014 19:51
by 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. [
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]
Thanks.
Re: [answered]How to determine plaintext content?
Posted: 05 Aug 2014 00:56
by PeterH
SammaySarkar wrote: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. [
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]
Thanks.
I think it doesn't matter:
- it's only pseudo code
- it misses an "{"
Sorry - I couldn't resist (again)
