From: Alin Popa Date: 2007-06-19T16:19:07+09:00 Subject: Re: Check for text file Alex Young wrote: > Alin Popa wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> After some research I still cannot find a way how to see if a file is >> plain text or binary. In fact I want to check if a file is plain text no >> matter what characters are in it. >> This thing may be possible by using ruby ? > > I think so, but it's a little unclear exactly what you're trying to > achieve. Do you have an example? I'm trying to do a replace in file for some text but I don't want to consider files like archives or other binary files. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.