The advantages of saving data in binary form:
- Stores the data in binary form.
- Files can be either processed sequentially or randomly.
- No delimiters are used for a line.
- No internal translation takes place.
- It takes less space to store data. For example, the integer 4564 occupies 2 bytes in memory.
The advantages of saving data in text form:
- Stores the data in ASCII characters.
- Files processed sequentially in the forward direction.
- Delimiter EOL is used for End of line and EOF is used to mark the end of file.
- Internal translation takes place during EOL and EOF.
- It takes more space to store data. For example, the integer 4564 occupies 4 bytes in memory.
