searching non plain text files
| From: | Jeffry Killen | Date: | Sat, 15 Dec 2018 04:19:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | searching non plain text files | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hello;
Can anyone point me to instruction/advice about
opening and reading files that are not plain text:
word processing docs, pdf, ps, image files,
even complied code.
I am writing a search function to search file systems
and don't know a lot about the formatting of non plain
text files.
The immediate concern is line breaks in word
processing docs, pdf and ps files.
Then detecting compiled code files so I can
leave them alone. This type of file might not
have a suffix to consider.
Then the various image files that might be
encountered.
Even suffixes aren't a guarantee of the content.
Thanks
Jeff K.