[nodejs] How to detect if file is text or binary using Nodejs?

Greelgorke

at Jan 22, 2013 at 2:13 pm

i guess only by try and error. if you want to put the content of the file
to json, you will use encoding anyway, because json is a text format. so, i
don't know what kind of data is in the files, but i would just use utf8 and
see if anything comes out of it.

Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 11:54:14 UTC+1 schrieb Vladimir Starkov:

How to detect if file is text or binary using Nodejs?

I need it to put file content in json and if file is text, I will use
encoding parameter in fs.readFile, and if the file is binary, I will read
it without encoding

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Greelgorke

at Jan 22, 2013 at 2:14 pm

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may be this can help you
too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark#Representations_of_byte_order_marks_by_encoding

Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 15:13:31 UTC+1 schrieb greelgorke:

i guess only by try and error. if you want to put the content of the file
to json, you will use encoding anyway, because json is a text format. so, i
don't know what kind of data is in the files, but i would just use utf8 and
see if anything comes out of it.

Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 11:54:14 UTC+1 schrieb Vladimir Starkov:

How to detect if file is text or binary using Nodejs?

I need it to put file content in json and if file is text, I will use
encoding parameter in fs.readFile, and if the file is binary, I will read
it without encoding

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Nathan Rajlich

at Jan 22, 2013 at 4:51 pm

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Perhaps try node-mmmagic: https://github.com/mscdex/mmmagic

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:14 AM, greelgorke wrote:

may be this can help you too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark#Representations_of_byte_order_marks_by_encoding

Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 15:13:31 UTC+1 schrieb greelgorke:

i guess only by try and error. if you want to put the content of the file
to json, you will use encoding anyway, because json is a text format. so, i
don't know what kind of data is in the files, but i would just use utf8 and
see if anything comes out of it.

Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 11:54:14 UTC+1 schrieb Vladimir Starkov:

How to detect if file is text or binary using Nodejs?

I need it to put file content in json and if file is text, I will use
encoding parameter in fs.readFile, and if the file is binary, I will read
it without encoding

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Greelgorke

at Jan 23, 2013 at 8:37 am

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it's a kind of magic! cool thing

Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 17:51:19 UTC+1 schrieb Nathan Rajlich:

Perhaps try node-mmmagic: https://github.com/mscdex/mmmagic

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:14 AM, greelgorke <[email protected]<javascript:>

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may be this can help you too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark#Representations_of_byte_order_marks_by_encoding

Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 15:13:31 UTC+1 schrieb greelgorke:

i guess only by try and error. if you want to put the content of the
file to json, you will use encoding anyway, because json is a text format.
so, i don't know what kind of data is in the files, but i would just use
utf8 and see if anything comes out of it.

Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 11:54:14 UTC+1 schrieb Vladimir Starkov:

How to detect if file is text or binary using Nodejs?

I need it to put file content in json and if file is text, I will use
encoding parameter in fs.readFile, and if the file is binary, I will read
it without encoding

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Vladimir Starkov

at Jan 28, 2013 at 6:54 am

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It’s not working on windows

On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:51:19 UTC+5, Nathan Rajlich wrote:

Perhaps try node-mmmagic: https://github.com/mscdex/mmmagic

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:14 AM, greelgorke <[email protected]<javascript:>

wrote:
may be this can help you too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark#Representations_of_byte_order_marks_by_encoding

Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 15:13:31 UTC+1 schrieb greelgorke:

i guess only by try and error. if you want to put the content of the
file to json, you will use encoding anyway, because json is a text format.
so, i don't know what kind of data is in the files, but i would just use
utf8 and see if anything comes out of it.

Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 11:54:14 UTC+1 schrieb Vladimir Starkov:

How to detect if file is text or binary using Nodejs?

I need it to put file content in json and if file is text, I will use
encoding parameter in fs.readFile, and if the file is binary, I will read
it without encoding

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Mscdex

at Jan 28, 2013 at 6:57 am

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On Jan 28, 1:54 am, Vladimir Starkov wrote:
It’s not working on windows

Can you elaborate? What errors (if any) are you getting?

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Mscdex

at Jan 28, 2013 at 7:04 am

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On Jan 28, 1:57 am, mscdex wrote:

On Jan 28, 1:54 am, Vladimir Starkov wrote:

It’s not working on windows

Can you elaborate? What errors (if any) are you getting?

Also, give the master branch a try: `npm install
https://github.com/mscdex/mmmagic/tarball/master`

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