<![CDATA[Cocoa Snippet: Finding a File’s ‘Kind’]]>

<![CDATA[Cocoa Snippet: Finding a File’s ‘Kind’]]>+ (NSString *)humanReadableFileType:(NSString *)path

 {

NSString *kind = nil;

NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[path stringByExpandingTildeInPath]];

LSCopyKindStringForURL((CFURLRef)url, (CFStringRef *)&kind);

return kind ? [kind autorelease] : @""; // If kind happens to be an empty string, don't autorelease it

}

Thanks very much to Peter Hosey and David Phillip Oster for being unbelievably helpful in clearing up the labyrinth that is CSStringRef to NSString usage.

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