Talk:File input/output: Difference between revisions

 

::On many systems and with many languages there are no special considerations for handling binary vs. text in files. Separate tasks for each could result in duplication without any clarification to the readership. Perhaps one task specifying processing of a binary file and a text file. One might have a task to read a specific binary file and a text file, extract some data from each, and then write the results to a text file. The code implementing that task could then highlight any differences in handling that are required by the language (as well as any portability features that show up for languages that are supported in multiple platforms). For example a Python example would show binfile.read() vs. txtfile.readline(). [[User:JimD|JimD]] 15:17, 20 November 2008 (UTC)