Binary data exercise: how to tell if a file is a jpeg?

Опубликовано: 10 Октябрь 2024
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Binary data exercise: how to tell if a file is a jpeg? // today I thought we would look at binary data, in the form of JPG images, and specifically see if we can write a program that will test whether or not a file is JPEG. We're looking at this in both C and Ruby, so you can see some of the pitfalls that you can run into with higher-level languages.

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