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Re: data type determination in a file [message #27404]

Sun, 21 October 2001 09:32

David Fanning
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Reimar Bauer (r.bauer@fz-juelich.de) writes:

> Or did someone has an idea how to determine types from an ASCII file
> ,string or byte array ?

I suppose as a first approximation you could sample the
data in bytes and look for those ASCII byte values that
represent characters (ABC...XYZabc...xyz). I think you could
assume anything with those characters would be a string.
Wouldn't work for Chinese, of course. :-)

Cheers,

David
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