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Whats wrong with the 'file' command? An interface for it here if its really needed: http://search.cpan.org/~pmison/File-Type-0.22/lib/File/Type.pm
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Re^2: how to guess the kind of spoken or programming language a text is written in
by leocharre (Priest) on Aug 12, 2006 at 07:07 UTC

    You mean unix 'file' command? ... Whohoa.. I just tried it.. Oh my crackers.. You guys have got to check this out if you don't know this.. Snap up a terminal and do # file yourtext.txt ; and put diff things in there, some c code, some javascript (by default snaps to C++), html .. etc.. I had no clue little ol' "file" did that, i thought it just read mime type off a header somewhere...

    It's close. Still, it makes an overall deduction .. or guess.. Not sure if it will accept a true mix of code.. . It's insanely sexy.. If you have a text file with long lines it will tell you 'english , really long lines'. I'm gonna pick that some more.. You rock.. Oh Anonymous Monk.

    Looking through the magic numbers file.... wow.. a lot of work went into this...