12 marks
State the two actions from the list below that a program needs to take to store data in a file.
activate
calculate
close
open
output
print
read
search
sort
write
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File Handling (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Computer Science): Exam Questions
Exam code: 0478 & 0984
18 mins6 questions
25 marks
State five file-handling operations from the list below:
calculate
close
count
create
input
open
output
print
read
sort
search
test
total
write
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32 marks
Outline why it is useful to store data in a file.
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13 marks
Explain why a program might need to store data in a file
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22 marks
A program halted unexpectedly with the error message ‘File not found’ whilst trying to read data from a file.
Outline the actions that the program needs to take to prevent this error occurring.
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34 marks
The function LENGTH(X) calculates the length of a string X
Write the pseudocode statements to:
read the contents of the text file Quotation.txt into an appropriate string variable that has been declared
output the string in upper case and the length of the string.
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