Distinguish between ASCII and Binary
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What could be an elegant way to distinguish an ASCII file from a Binary one? Specifically, I'm working with STL files that can be both, and I need a solution how to seperate those two
Thanks,
Tero
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Stephen23
2020년 11월 5일
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2020년 11월 5일
The elegent way is to read the file format description. Wikipedia gives an outline:
Apparently STL text files must start with the string "solid", whereas STL binary files must NOT start with that string. So to know the difference, you just need to read the first five characters. And testing those five characters is easy in "an elegant way", certainly much faster and more elegant than parsing the entire file.
Chris Hooper
2024년 3월 25일
I read a claim that some binary .stl files can still begin with "solid". not sure if its true.
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Bruno Luong
2020년 11월 5일
I don't know if it's an elegant way but I just test if any charater is > 255
fid = fopen(stlfilename,'rt');
if fid > 0
try
c = textscan(fid,'%s','delimiter','\n');
fclose(fid);
catch ME
message = ME.message;
h = errordlg(message);
waitfor(h);
OK = -2;
return
end
else
OK = -2;
message = 'Cannot open STL file';
h = errordlg(message);
waitfor(h);
return
end
c = c{1};
c(cellfun(@isempty,c)) = [];
if max(cellfun(@max,c)) > 255
% Binary
...
else
% Ascii
...
end
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Ameer Hamza
2020년 11월 5일
This test can produce false negatives. For example
fid = fopen('file.bin', 'w');
fwrite(fid, [65 66 67 68], 'uint8')
fclose(fid)
Test
fid = fopen('file.bin','rt');
c = textscan(fid,'%s','delimiter','\n');
fclose(fid);
c = c{1};
c(cellfun(@isempty,c)) = [];
Result
>> max(cellfun(@max,c)) > 255
ans =
logical
0
Bruno Luong
2020년 11월 5일
We are talking about STL file, that can be ascii/binary, no any binary file.
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