SPUG: Checking for ASCII files

Lorraine Johnson lorraine.johnson at elektrobit.com
Tue May 15 13:46:12 CDT 2001


Hello,

I'm sure this is an old question, but I'm obviously looking in the wrong
place for the answer....  We develop under Windows then copy source to an
HP-UX box to build.  (Long story.)  We're writing a Unix Perl script to
navigate the directories and convert the Windows newlines to Unix newlines.
We know all the pieces but one: What is the best way to determine if a file
is ASCII or non-ASCII?  

Thanks!

Lorraine

Lorraine Johnson
Senior Software Engineer
Elektrobit Inc.
lorraine.johnson at elektrobit.com
www.elektrobit-usa.com
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