🚀 go-pugleaf

Not so practical, especially when you have big files, anyway thank you
everybody!

"Andrue Cope" <not.a.valid@email.address.sorry> skrev i meddelandet
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> Johnny Liwis,
>
> > How do I know if the file has binary or ascii content ?
> >
>
> All you can do is scan the entire files and determine if all the byte
> values lie within the acceptable range for 'ascii content' whatever
> that is.
>
> FWIW we have a routine that does a pretty good job at this kind of
> thing. We use it to decide whether to activate a hex view or text
> view. The decision is based upon the following function:
>
> bool TOTextLineIndexer::IsMainlyTextual()
> {
>   return !( ( MyFileSize-MyViewableText )>( 3*MyViewableText ) );
> }
>
> Where MyViewableText is the count of bytes whose values lie within
> the range 32 (space) to 0x7F.
>
> I can't give particular statistics for success but we use it a lot
> and it chooses the right mode most of the time.
>
> Andrue Cope
> [Bicester, UK]
>