# Is Text or Binary?






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Determines if a buffer is comprised of text or binary






## Install

### [NPM](http://npmjs.org/)
- Use: `require('istextorbinary')`
- Install: `npm install --save istextorbinary`




## Usage

``` javascript
// Sync
var result = require('istextorbinary').isTextSync(filename, buffer);

// Async
require('istextorbinary').isText(filename, buffer, function(err, result){
	// ...
});

// You can supply text or buffer, or both text and buffer, the more provided, the more accurate the result
// isBinary, and isBinarySync methods also provided
```




## History
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## Contribute

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## Backers

### Maintainers

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### Contributors

These amazing people have contributed code to this project:

- [Benjamin Lupton](https://github.com/balupton) <b@lupton.cc> — [view contributions](https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary/commits?author=balupton)
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## License

Licensed under the incredibly [permissive](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_free_software_licence) [MIT license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/MIT/)

Copyright &copy; 2012+ Bevry Pty Ltd <us@bevry.me> (http://bevry.me)
<br/>Copyright &copy; 2011 Benjamin Lupton <b@lupton.cc> (http://balupton.com)