Re[4]: [PHP] Detecting Binaries

Hello Evan, Monday, February 23, 2004, 8:57:43 PM, you wrote: >> It would be wise to check for characters from 0 to 31, if they appear >> then it's almost certainly (but not guaranteed) binary. EN> Assuming that's decimal, you're including 0x09 0x0a and 0x0d which are, EN> respectively, tab, line feed, and carriage return. That's off the top of my EN> head, which means two things: (1) i may be forgetting something, and (2) I EN> need a life ;) Let me rephrase - check for the existence of characters 0 through 31 and count how many there are. Set a percentage weight yourself and figure out in your script if you deem the quantity too many or too few. The count_chars() function will be absolutely ideal for this. -- Best regards, Richard Davey http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html