Distinguish between ASCII and Binary

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Tero
Tero 2020-11-5
回答： DGM 2024-3-25
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
Stephen23 2020-11-5
编辑：Stephen23 2020-11-5
The elegent way is to read the file format description. Wikipedia gives an outline:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format)
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
Chris Hooper 2024-3-25
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
Bruno Luong 2020-11-5
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
Ameer Hamza 2020-11-5
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
Bruno Luong 2020-11-5
We are talking about STL file, that can be ascii/binary, no any binary file.

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DGM
DGM 2024-3-25
See also stlGetFormat() from stltools on the FEX:
https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/51200-stltools

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