Re: searching non plain text files
| From: | Guang Chao | Date: | Tue, 18 Dec 2018 03:31:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: searching non plain text files | ||
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 12:20 PM Jeffry Killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
Hi, what about read the different formats using different api. Then store
the textual information on a database for easier searching?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff K.
>
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