---
title: "FileAnalysis"
slug: "fileanalysis"
updated: 2025-07-11T17:20:06Z
published: 2025-07-11T17:20:06Z
canonical: "docs.datajet.app/fileanalysis"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# FileAnalysis

Analyses a file and generates a character count.

| Key | Value(s) | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| method | "FileAnalysis" | Analyses a file and generates a character count. |
| binary | true/false | Optional. Default = false. If true, a binary comparison of the file will be done. Use this if control Characters need to be counted (i.e., ASCII 0,10,13) |
| filename | "Filename" | Required. Name and path of file to analyse. |
| sampleSize | N | Optional. Default = 0. If sampleSize = 0, all data is examined. |

Use this method to pre-process a file, or to examine a file that is not loading correctly.

```json
{
  "method": "FileAnalysis"
  "binary":true
  "filename":"e:/tmp/ods_f_entity_summary_minus_1.txt"
  "sampleSize":0
}
```

Sample Output

```json
[
  [
    1, // ASCII character: SOH (Start of Heading, non-printable control character)
    21180602076 // Count: 21,180,602,076 occurrences
  ],
  [
    9, // ASCII character: TAB (Horizontal Tab, non-printable control character)
    3 // Count: 3 occurrences
  ],
  [
    10, // ASCII character: LF (Line Feed, non-printable control character, newline)
    450651108 // Count: 450,651,108 occurrences
  ],
  [
    25, // ASCII character: EM (End of Medium, non-printable control character)
    4 // Count: 4 occurrences
  ],
  [
    26, // ASCII character: SUB (Substitute, non-printable control character)
    19 // Count: 19 occurrences
  ],
  [
    32, // ASCII character: Space (printable character, ' ')
    1246832781 // Count: 1,246,832,781 occurrences
  ],
  [
    33, // ASCII character: ! (Exclamation mark, printable character)
    76361 // Count: 76,361 occurrences
  ],
  [
    34, // ASCII character: " (Quotation mark, printable character)
    47100 // Count: 47,100 occurrences
  ]
]
```