From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T03:21:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Check for text file



On Jun 19, 11:33 am, Alin Popa <alin.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ryan Davis wrote:
> > On Jun 18, 2007, at 23:59 , Alin Popa wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> >http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2006/08/i_miss_perls_b.html
>
> Nice, thanks.

Which I shamelessly plagiarized and stuck in the ptools library.

gem install ptools

File.binary?('some_file')

Regards,

Dan