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  2. List of file signatures - Wikipedia

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    A file signature is data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or magic bytes.. Many file formats are not intended to be read as text.

  3. Brace notation - Wikipedia

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    In C, strings are normally represented as a character array rather than an actual string data type. The fact a string is really an array of characters means that referring to a string would mean referring to the first element in an array. Hence in C, the following is a legitimate example of brace notation:

  4. Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia

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    TIFF files begin with either "II" or "MM" followed by 42 as a two-byte integer in little or big endian byte ordering. "II" is for Intel, which uses little endian byte ordering, so the magic number is 49 49 2A 00. "MM" is for Motorola, which uses big endian byte ordering, so the magic number is 4D 4D 00 2A.

  5. File:A Byte of Python.pdf - Wikipedia

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    A Byte of Python: Author: Swaroop C H: Software used: DocBook XSL Stylesheets with Apache FOP: Conversion program: Apache FOP Version 1.1: Encrypted: no: Page size: 595.275 x 841.889 pts (A4) Version of PDF format: 1.4

  6. Binary-to-text encoding - Wikipedia

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    The best-known is the string "From " (including trailing space) at the beginning of a line, used to separate mail messages in the mbox file format. By using a binary-to-text encoding on messages that are already plain text, then decoding on the other end, one can make such systems appear to be completely transparent .

  7. Netstring - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, a netstring is a formatting method for byte strings that uses a declarative notation to indicate the size of the string. [1] [2]Netstrings store the byte length of the data that follows, making it easier to unambiguously pass text and byte data between programs that could be sensitive to values that could be interpreted as delimiters or terminators (such as a null ...

  8. String (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    The length of a string can also be stored explicitly, for example by prefixing the string with the length as a byte value. This convention is used in many Pascal dialects; as a consequence, some people call such a string a Pascal string or P-string. Storing the string length as byte limits the maximum string length to 255.

  9. Run-length encoding - Wikipedia

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    Even binary data files can be compressed with this method; file format specifications often dictate repeated bytes in files as padding space. However, newer compression methods such as DEFLATE often use LZ77-based algorithms, a generalization of run-length encoding that can take advantage of runs of strings of characters (such as BWWBWWBWWBWW).