Thread: Converting ASCII text into chars or strings.

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    Converting ASCII text into chars or strings.

    I am confused as to how ASCII text such as backspace and delete are represented in a file. Aren't these more of text altering commands? yet how are these ASCII text represented in a file?

    I am trying to implement an algorithm for an input file of ASCII text but the backspace and delete ASCII text are confusing me as I have never seen these characters still present in a file. If I read the file in line by line and one character at a time, will these show up or should I just not worry about them.

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    I'm not sure what happens if you read a file in text mode (fopen( ... "r")), but in binary mode (fopen( ... "rb")), backspace shows up as 0x08 (hex), delete as 0x7f, carriage return (dos / windows) as 0x0d, linefeed as 0x0a, ... . Link to wiki article:

    ASCII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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