Within a C# program, is there any way to tell if a file is a text file or not? I mean a real way, not just basing your conclusion on a file name extension.
BobLewiston 0 Junior Poster
Rashakil Fol 978 Super Senior Demiposter Team Colleague
You can look inside the file and see what's there. If it conforms to your expectations -- if the file or the first 1000 bytes of the file contains only characters that conform to one of some particular set of character encodings, maybe you have a text file.
cVz 19 Junior Poster
Rashakil Fol gave the only thing else i could think of ...
But using "*.txt" will work fine ?
LizR 171 Posting Virtuoso
Sure, but its not a guarentee doesnt stop people adding a .txt extension to anything
Ramy Mahrous 401 Postaholic Featured Poster
text file means .txt or contains text data like .rtf, or .txt?
LizR 171 Posting Virtuoso
Any file extension (or even lack of) could be text inside it.. similarly just as I said, just because it got named .txt doesnt make it text
Ramy Mahrous 401 Postaholic Featured Poster
And they can predict the content of file (Text or binary) that's why I asked!
ddanbe 2,724 Professional Procrastinator Featured Poster
Adobe acrobat reader documents although binary often start with the text %PDF
Ramy Mahrous 401 Postaholic Featured Poster
If you look Danny to the end of pdf files you'll find too a lot of special characters...
LizR 171 Posting Virtuoso
A lot of files start with a specific signature, zip files etc.. However, this isnt answering his quesiton.. mind you, nor is he we've just done a lot of speculation ..
Ramy Mahrous 401 Postaholic Featured Poster
Is it the end of the world? we gave a lot of solutions not speculations!!, and if I were he, I used some of.
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