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[Aaron Patrick Lehmann]

Did you set the 'b' mode flag on the stream when you opened it?

Aaron Lehmann

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:29:09AM -0600, N. Thompson wrote:
> I read in one of my books that Qt keeps data separate by itself when you're 
> using binary output streams, I was trying to see if this would also happen 
> with regular C++ binary file streams so I was trying to test it out. I wrote 
> a program which would write three integers, three strings and then three 
> characters to a file but when I opened it I get a plain text file.
> 
> Can anyone explain why I'm getting what looks like an ordinary plain text 
> file, are characters and numbers not changed into something else when dealing 
> with binary file streams?
> 
> If anyone was wondering about the results, the standard C++ file streams do 
> not separate data given to a binary output stream, the output came out as 
> "123onetwothree123" where the first three numbers were the integers given to 
> it, the next three words were the strings and the last three numbers were the 
> characters.
> 
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