How does mode of file operation differ in binary and text mode?

Differences between binary mode and text mode have been listed below:

1. • Open file in text mode when dealing with formatted text.
   • Open file in binary mode to access or modify structured records present inside it.
2. • Text mode has end of file (EOF) and newline (carriage return-linefeed combination) characters in the file buffer
   • Binary mode does not have such characters.
3. • fgetc(), fputc(), fprintf(), fscanf() etc are the common functions used in text mode
   • fread(), fwrite() etc are the commonly used functions in binary mode.
4. • Numbers are stored as string of characters in text mode
   • Numbers are stored as present in memory (int, float etc.) in binary mode

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