Can anyone tell me what is the purpose of a mode argument in the open function?
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Can anyone tell me what is the purpose of a mode argument in the open function?
The mode determines how the file is opened, if you only want to add text to the end of a file then you use a different mode than you would if you wanted to open a file to read/write in binary.
http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/iostream/fstream/
-Prelude