NAME

       al_fopen - Allegro 5 API

SYNOPSIS

              #include <allegro5/allegro.h>

              ALLEGRO_FILE *al_fopen(const char *path, const char *mode)

DESCRIPTION

       Creates  and  opens a file (real or virtual) given the path and mode.  The current file interface is used
       to open the file.

       Parameters:

       • path - path to the file to open

       • mode - access mode to open the file in (“r”, “w”, etc.)

       Depending on the stream type and the mode string, files may be opened in “text” mode.   The  handling  of
       newlines  is  particularly important.  For example, using the default stdio-based streams on DOS and Win‐
       dows platforms, where the native end-of-line terminators are CR+LF sequences, a call to al_fgetc(3alleg5)
       may return just one character (`\n') where there were two bytes (CR+LF) in the file.   When  writing  out
       `\n', two bytes would be written instead.  (As an aside, `\n' is not defined to be equal to LF either.)

       Newline  translations can be useful for text files but is disastrous for binary files.  To avoid this be‐
       haviour you need to open file streams in  binary  mode  by  using  a  mode  argument  containing  a  “b”,
       e.g. “rb”, “wb”.

       Returns a file handle on success, or NULL on error.

SEE ALSO

       al_set_new_file_interface(3alleg5), al_fclose(3alleg5).

Allegro reference manual                                                                       al_fopen(3alleg5)