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Software => TrID File Identifier => Topic started by: bonis on June 02, 2009, 10:56:27 PM

Title: CSV (excel), and txt (ANSI)
Post by: bonis on June 02, 2009, 10:56:27 PM

Hello All,

Just wondering why TrID cannot check the format of CSV (data exported from an Excel spreadsheet).
Actually it's kind of txt (ANSI). Is there a way to check both of these two pupular types ?

Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: CSV (excel), and txt (ANSI)
Post by: Mark0 on June 02, 2009, 11:01:29 PM

Hi!

Currently TrID isn't very well suited to analyze text files; it can works just with that text formats that have a pretty strong characterization, like a common string at the start, or something like that.
With a different approach (statistical, for example) some more formats could be recognized, like sources code.

But, considering that:

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"a";"b";"c"
"Rome";"Boston";"Paris"

or

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1

could be both two valid CSV files (the latter of one record numeric field with just one numeric field), this in particular it's a  pretty challenging format to recognize...

Bye!

Title: Re: CSV (excel), and txt (ANSI)
Post by: bonis on June 02, 2009, 11:10:17 PM

I understand. But is it possible to send  a result as "txt" ?
Right now, TrID gives the result as "unknown!" even with a real "txt" file.

Thanks.

Title: Re: CSV (excel), and txt (ANSI)
Post by: Mark0 on June 02, 2009, 11:42:14 PM

TrID (the command line version) show it as a warning:

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Warning: file seems to be plain text/ASCII
         TrID is best suited to analyze binary files!
other than that, it cannot be identified as some other generic file format.

Bye!

Title: Re: CSV (excel), and txt (ANSI)
Post by: bonis on June 03, 2009, 04:21:58 PM

I am using command line (DOS) with the latest version http://mark0.net/download/trid_w32.zip,
but only get a message of "Unknown"  with "txt" files.  Am I doing right ?

Thanks.

Title: Re: CSV (excel), and txt (ANSI)
Post by: Mark0 on June 03, 2009, 04:24:16 PM

Here's a complete screenshot:

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C:\TrID>trid readme_e.txt

TrID/32 - File Identifier v2.02 - (C) 2003-06 By M.Pontello
Definitions found:  3776
Analyzing...

Collecting data from file: readme_e.txt

Warning: file seems to be plain text/ASCII
         TrID is best suited to analyze binary files!

       Unknown!

C:\TrID>
The warning should show up just about the results list (or the unknown, like in this case).

Bye!

Title: Re: CSV (excel), and txt (ANSI)
Post by: bonis on June 03, 2009, 04:58:50 PM

I see the problem. I use it for a wildcard scan, it has less result.

Thanks again.