From: "Peter B. Ensch" <pNOeterSPAM4MEbe@...>
Date: 2003-04-19T01:14:08+09:00
Subject: Re: How to test for text file

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "How to test for text file"
>     on 03/04/17, "Peter B. Ensch" <pNOeterSPAM4MEbe@attbi.com> writes:
> 
> |In perl, -T <file> returns true if <file> is a text file and
> |-B <file> returns true if <file> is binary.
> 
> You have to define what is text file first.  Traditional Perl test
> does not work for Japanese text (nor Unicode text).
> 
> matz.

Ah! Not having worked with Unicode before, I had not considered this.
Does your answer assume that I need to define 'text file' and then
open/read the file to see if it meets the definition? In other words,
it is not possible to do something like:
if text file
  open and process
else 
  do not open
end

BTW, thanks for answering my question, Matz, and thanks for ruby. I'm
having a lot of fun learning it.

P
 
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