When writing to file, strings with \n get automatically converted to \r\n.
What is responsible for this behaviour? Is this a part of the cpp function, or something closer to the system?
Windows C++ | When writing to file, what is responsible for converting \n to \r\n?
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It's your compiler.
When you are working with OS-specific outputs (like files or standard output), compiler is obliged to convert end-of-line escape sequence (\n) to OS-specific line ending - on Unix it would be a line feed (ASCII 0x0A), on older Macs it's a carriage return (ASCII 0x0D) and on Windows it's both.
You can avoid that by opening file in binary mode:
std::fstream("myFile.txt", std::ios_base::binary);
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