Re: Binary or Ascii Text?
- From: "void * clvrmnky()" <clvrmnky.invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:55:59 -0500
Claude Yih wrote:
Hi, everyone. I got a question. How can I identify whether a file is aAs others have said, this is an essentially arbitrary decision on your part. Here we've standardized on a definition of "binary" that means:
binary file or an ascii text file? For instance, I wrote a piece of
code and saved as "Test.c". I knew it was an ascii text file. Then
after compilation, I got a "Test" file and it was a binary executable
file. The problem is, I know the type of those two files in my mind
because I executed the process of compilation, but how can I make the
computer know the type of a given file by writing code in C? Files are
all save as 0's and 1's. What's the difference?
Please help me, thanks.
Lines greater than X bytes (where "X" is some arbitrarily high number, like 16 or 23k), or any character within the file is \0 or null.
I line is defined as data between newlines (normalized to '\n').
Everything else fits into a reasonable notion of OEM or ANSI charset, with some caveats.
Again, this is specific to application requirements. Your requirements may vary.
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