Identifying Text Files

[jeffo]

How can plain ascii text files be identified without having to look for the .txt extension?

[plenderj]

Without looking at any extension, you'd have to open them up and check to make sure the data inside is all around the readable characters range

[jeffo]

How do you do that???

[plenderj]

Well you can get information on File I/O here ;
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=121667

So you'd read in the data, and then um... I suppose loop through for a while and check that each character is inside the character ranges for a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and also a few punctuation marks...