> Hmm, I still can't get it... > Binary means multi-byte or non-letter bytes in it. And you can save this > data with FFW. It does not add any newlines himself, only specified fields > and separators. So it's binary writer.
When you open a file for reading or writing in languages like C/C++/Java you can speficy if you want to do it in binary mode or text mode. Binary mode usually gives you a smaller file because, for example, an integer is written in 4 bytes instead of writing the textual representation of the integer. Moreover, when reading a binary file you do not have to read the string representation and then convert it to the desired type. With large datasets, this is more efficient in terms of space and CPU cycles. Greets, Andrej --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
