Writing to a file is more than just text

Question

I could always read and write basic text files in C ++, but so far no one has discussed much more.

My question is:

If I myself develop a file type for use by the application, I also create, how would I start writing data to a file and save the layout, formatting, etc.? Are there any standards, or does it depend only on the creativity of the programmer?

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You basically have to come up with your own file format and write binary data. You can also serialize your object model and write the output to a file, but this is usually less efficient.

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