Re: [Dev-C++] fwrite() & fprintf() -- binary or text ???

[Farzan H. <far...@ho...>]

Dear Per Westermark,

Thanks for your answer. It was really amazing ! But that caused a
question.
Do you mean that the ONLY, ONLY, and ONLY difference between text
streams and binary streams is the way that they handle NEWLINE ?????
Before I read your mail ,I used to consider that the difference is
the way that numbers are processed.

Imagine we have:

int i=3D12;
fprintf(file,"%i",i);

As you know,the result file will have 2 bytes because "12" contains
only 2 ASCII characters.In other words,the number 12 is first stringized
and then it is into the file. But assume we use

int i=3D12;
fwrite(&i,sizeof(int),1,file);

the made file will be 4 bytes long since integers consume 4 bytes.And
of course, it is impossible to read this file using a text editor
because the BINARY format of "12" is used and the number is not stringize=
d.

By reading what you said I'm getting to realized that the idea I had,
was wrong and how numbers are handled is not related to the type of
streams but to the function.
And if so, is there any other character change in a text stream
(except newline of course!)???

Thanks,


On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:59:48 +0330, Per Westermark <pw...@ia...>=
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wrote:

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