Text files are what type of file? Sequential Random access Binary Consecutive Wh

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Text files are what type of file? Sequential Random access Binary Consecutive What do the following statements accomplish? ifstream theFile; theFile open(myFile.txt, ios::in); Opens myFile in read mode Opens myFile in append mode Creates an empty file named myFile Opens a file in input mode to write to When a file is opened in the append mode, the file pointer is positioned ________. at the end of the file at the beginning of the file in the middle of the file after the file header The is_closed function returns what kind of data type? bool int char double

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1. Text files are what type of files?
   Random Access files.
2. What do the following statements accomplish?
ifstream thefile;   //Declares an input file stream.
theFile.open("myFile.txt", ios::in);   //The file name should be specified in quotes as a string.  
                                       //So, the file will be opened for input stream.
Opens a myFile in read mode.

3. When a file is opened in the append mode, the file pointer is positioned ___.
At the end of the file.   When the file is opened in append mode, the file pointer
points to the end of the file, so that text will be appended at the end.

4. The is_closed function returns what kind of data type?
It returns a boolean value (bool), if the file is closed will return true, and false otherwise.                                      

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