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• Subject: Re: English sentences, was: Re: Announce:XML Schema,
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 28 Jun 2002 08:49:58 +0200
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On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 00:17, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
> [Eric van der Vlist
> >
> > If you are happy with the result of the unix "file" command to determine
> > the type of a text and see if it's more likely a Java source code, a
> > snippet of Python or an English text, you may want to validate the
> > document using its result instead of the code.
> >
>  You mean, try to compile and if it compiles, it's in that language?  But
> you can't be sure abouta file iwth a bug that prevents compiling.  How to
> handle that?

No, I meant using the unix "file" command which try to guess the "type"
of a file using "magic numbers":

vdv@ibook:~/wikiml/code/experimental/java$ file README             
README: ASCII English text
vdv@ibook:~/wikiml/code/experimental/java$ file WikiSAXWriter.java 
WikiSAXWriter.java: ASCII Java program text

but also:

vdv@ibook:~/4xt/pub/downloads/JrdfDB$ file Test.java 
Test.java: ASCII C program text, with very long lines

Like with any magic, it's not 100% sure and can sometimes be confused
like here between Java and C but it's usually working fine!


Eric
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  • Re: English sentences, was: Re: Announce: XMLSchema,
    • From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
  • Re: English sentences,was: Re: Announce: XML Schema,
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