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README.md

FileFormats

Documentation and Rust Implementation to learn how most famous file formats store data.

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Concepts

2 kinds of computer files: text files and binary files.

  • Text files
    • Encoding (charset: ASCII, UTF-8, etc.)
    • End Of Line (EOL): \n, \r\n, \r, and End Of File (EOF)
    • Type (common mimetypes: text/plain, text/html, text/markdown, etc.)
    • Indentation: Spaces vs Tabs
  • Binary files: Endianness, Type
    • Images
      • PPM (Portable PixMap)
      • PNG
      • JPG, JPEG
      • GIF
      • WebP
      • BMP
      • SVG
      • HEIC
    • Videos
      • MP4
      • AVI
    • Audio
      • MP3
      • WAV
    • Documents
      • PDF
      • DOCX
      • XLSX
      • PPTX