In article <[email protected]>, Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]> wrote: > >Perl has the following constructs to check whether a file is considered >to contain "text" or "binary" data: > >if (-T $filename) { print "file contains 'text' characters\n"; } >if (-B $filename) { print "file contains 'binary' characters\n"; }
Assuming you're on a Unix-like system or can install Cygwin, the standard response is to use the "file" command. It's *much* more sophisticated. -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "At Resolver we've found it useful to short-circuit any doubt and just refer to comments in code as 'lies'. :-)" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
