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Files: binary-mode and text-mode |
The binary-mode
or text-mode
keywords affect the automatic processing of newlines in the file being read. When you specify the mode binary-mode
, no processing is performed on the newlines. When you specify the mode text-mode
, the following sequences are translated to a single newline (ASCII 10) character:
"%13#%10#"
)
"%13#"
)
"%10#"
)
For example, if foo were a global or local stream variable, you might issue the following code:
open foo with (buffered and text-mode) as file "foo.txt"
When neither mode is specified, on a UNIX system, the file is treated as a binary-mode
file. (On UNIX systems, the newline (ASCII 10) character is the system-specific newline sequence, so no transformation is necessary for text files.) On all non-UNIX systems, the file is treated as a text-mode
file.
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