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

[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

[greelgorke]

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

[Nathan Rajlich]

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

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[greelgorke]

it's a kind of magic! cool thing

[Vladimir Starkov]

It’s not working on windows

[mscdex]

On Jan 28, 1:54 am, Vladimir Starkov <matmuchra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It’s not working on windows

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

[mscdex]

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