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# simple-linguist [](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/src-d/simple-linguist.v1) [](https://travis-ci.org/src-d/simple-linguist)
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File language detector and toolbox to ignore binary or vendored files. *simple-linguist* , is our port to _Go_ of the original [lignuist ](https://github.com/github/linguist ) _Ruby_ library, with fewer precision in arcane languages but with an improved *performance of 100x* .
Installation
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The recommended way to install simple-linguist
```
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go get gopkg.in/src-d/simple-linguist.v1/...
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```
Examples
--------
```go
lang, _ := GetLanguageByExtension("foo.go")
fmt.Println(lang)
// result: Go
lang, _ = GetLanguageByContent("foo.m", "< matlab-code > ")
fmt.Println(lang)
// result: Matlab
lang, _ = GetLanguageByContent("bar.m", "< pbjective-c-code > ")
fmt.Println(lang)
// result: Objective-C
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```
License
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MIT, see [LICENSE ](LICENSE )
