Data saved in random access format.... can it not be binary?

It seems that all data I have saved this way is stored in binary.

Wheneva I hv tried to retrieve this and edit and save back to the file, it never stores properly... in a sense that what is re-saved is not what I edited it to b.... but rather, appears in my program as a bunch of wing-dings style characters

So I just wanted to ask, is there a way so that I can use this method to save, yet be able to retrieve, edit, re-save and still have readable data?

Everything, not matter what you save, is saved as binary, even text. How else would you save it :confused:

But besides that:
1. What exactly are you trying to store?

2. And how is this data store in memory, strings, longs, etc.