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Re^2: Question regarding a regexby afoken (Chancellor) |
| on Jul 23, 2021 at 08:09 UTC ( [id://11135335]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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It could give a false positive if every byte of a 'binary' file happened to contain the code of an ASCII character. (Can you tolerate an extremely rare error?) I know only one binary file that intentionally contains only ASCII characters: The EICAR test file. Here it is, in its full glory:
It is a DOS executable that just prints the embedded text "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!" and then exits. Alexander
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