OpenEuphoria

"r"/"rb" & "w"/"wb" differences

• Posted by Mike Hurley <mike_hurley_2 at YAHOO.COM> Aug 16, 2000
• 631 views

before I ask my questions, assume the file
"THISFILE.DAT" contains the following:

ONE:EINS
TWO:ZWEI
THREE:DREI
FOUR:VIER
FIVE:FUENF

If I open it with the following line:
 hdl = open("thisfile.dat","r")

how is it different that doing this?:
 hdl = open("thisfile.dat","rb")

When I've read data from files, I've gotten the same
data from "r" as I have from "rb."  What is the
difference between an opening mode and its binary
counterpart?

Thanks for the clarification,
Mike Hurley

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