Re: confused abt file operations

"siliconwafer" <spdandavate@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
# Hi All,
# If I open a binary file in text mode and use text functions to
# read it then will I be reading numbers as characters or actual
# values?
# What if I open a text file and read it using binary read functions.

There are not text and binary functions. The functions work either way,
but they may have slightly different results if the file is text or
binary. That might include things like text line definitions, end of
file markers, file positions in fseek and ftell, etc. What the difference
really are depends on the system.

On Unices, text and binary modes are the same thing.


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