On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Jonathan Sharp wrote:
> Is there a way to determine if a string has ascii or binary data in it?
I've used this kind of approach in the past to determine which encoding
to use on a string which may contain text or an image. Basically it
uses addcslashes to escape non-ASCII chars, then strips all
non-backslash chars, and takes the size of the string... $size should
contain the number of bytes (out of 1024) that were escaped, and should
be very low for clean text, and pretty high for binary. This was made
for analyzing blobs, but maybe the approach is useful...
$text = addcslashes(substr($string, 0, 1024), "\\\"'\0..\37\177..\377");
$size = strlen(preg_replace('/[^\\\\]/', '', $text));
if ($size < 200)
print "mostly text, use addslashes";
else
print "mostly binary, use base64_encode";
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