Difference between r+ and w+ in fopen()

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Both r+ and w+ can read and write to a file. However, r+ doesn’t delete the content of the file and doesn’t create a new file if such file doesn’t exist, whereas w+ deletes the content of the file and creates it if it doesn’t exist.

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