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LiquidCode · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 6:43 pm Post subject: Text/Code recognition

Does anyone know (or have example code) of a good way to recognize types of text/code. Take a file/bit of text and be able to tell if it is HTML, PHP, CSS etc..

Thanks!

Skit3000 · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 1:19 pm Post subject:

Not VDS code, but may be usefull Smile

http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/

bornsoft · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:14 pm Post subject:

I would simply search for certain tags:

LiquidCode · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:36 pm Post subject:

Yes, that is what I thought would be best also. I am going to have to put a few different tags to look for in each because some tags might not be used in the code.

bornsoft · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 1:35 am Post subject:

Hey LiquidCode,

The biggest problem I think is, that in fact all code files are text-files.
A file "RFC_xyz.txt" for example could contain such tags.
Only a combination of different testing methods is a nearly secure way to do it. This is not a problem of VDS, it's a generally problem.

I made a DSU "bsFile" some time ago which has a sub-function "bin" included to test if a file is a binary or a text file, which is pretty reliable. It could help you to test if a file is text at all. It also deals with unicode-files, which I think was the original reason to make this unit.

I never published this DSU here before, don't know why, probably no time. For my needs all works perfectly.

This unit requires VDS6. (Sorry, but I bought VDS6 and so I want to profit by it's benefits. Feel free to port it to VDS5.)

You can download it here including the sourcecode.

http://www.vdsworld.com/forum/download.php?id=374

Greetings. bornSoft

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LiquidCode · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:47 pm Post subject:

Thank I'll take a look!