Bypass exception

Question

my program was catching an exception that threw me off for a bit but i finally figured it out. my program was trying to convert the contents of a binary file to a string and perform regular expressions on it. is there a way to detect if a file is binary, or is there a way to not make my program throw or catch an exception here? just to tell u this is fine if my program tries to do this, but it cant stop, it hast to keep going.

Answer 1

chopficaro wrote:
my program was catching an exception that threw me off for a bit but i finally figured it out. my program was trying to convert the contents of a binary file to a string and perform regular expressions on it. is there a way to detect if a file is binary,Look at the entire contents of the file and see if it can all be converted into characters in whatever character set you're using.
or is there a way to not make my program throw or catch an exception here? Eh?
just to tell u this is fine if my program tries to do this, but it cant stop, it hast to keep going.Eh?
I'm not sure what you're asking, but it sounds like it might be something like this:
while (there are more characters to process) {
  try {
    process next character
  catch (whatever the excpetion is) {
    log the exception
    do whatever substitute processing makes sense for invalid characters
}