What is a reliable way to detect which line break characters are used in a file?

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Published on 2010-04-23T09:11:44Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 9:13 UTC
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I'm reading text files but I don't know in advance the kind of line ending used in this file. I need to know whether it uses UNIX \n or windows style \r\n line endings.

What is a reliable and fast way to detect this?

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