Difference between opening a file in binary vs text [duplicate]

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The link you gave does actually describe the differences, but it’s buried at the bottom of the page:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/fopen/

Text files are files containing sequences of lines of text. Depending on the environment where the application runs, some special character conversion may occur in input/output operations in text mode to adapt them to a system-specific text file format. Although on some environments no conversions occur and both text files and binary files are treated the same way, using the appropriate mode improves portability.

The conversion could be to normalize \r\n to \n (or vice-versa), or maybe ignoring characters beyond 0x7F (a-la ‘text mode’ in FTP). Personally I’d open everything in binary-mode and use a good Unicode or other text-encoding library for dealing with text.

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