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rmagro
6th February 2009, 13:44
Hi All,

Does some easy way exist to check if a file is in base64 or binary format?

Thank you very mutch,

Roby

wysota
6th February 2009, 15:23
Base64 contains only printable characters (32-127 ascii).

rmagro
6th February 2009, 15:55
This mean I should read the file and check for characters outside (32-127 ascii) ..

??

Thank you

rmagro
6th February 2009, 16:39
anyway guys,

is it correct to say that ..

to see if a file is a binary one we just need to look for "\x00", because it would inevitable have it ??

Thank you for yor kin reply...

Roby

aamer4yu
6th February 2009, 17:17
is it correct to say that ..

to see if a file is a binary one we just need to look for "\x00",

May it wud be correct to say that -- it is not a base64 file. However you may not confirm if its a binary file. Different files have different signatures.
What do u want to achieve ?