On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Gian wrote: > Hello everyone, > those coming from the Windows VB, frequently asks how to work with random > access files with fixed-length string. > I created this demo as an explanation and would like to know if you think > right, correct in part or completely wrong. > Thank you for attention >
Looks good. But, as you mentioned in the project description, it would also be possible, and easier, to use Structs, as we did[0]. Also, if someone came to me and said: "in VB I used to store data in a non- human-readable binary format. I want to continue doing so", I would briefly mention that this is not *necessarily* a nice move and plain text files are much more welcome in general. Also, if you are GNU-affine, they say[1]: "[...] Unix programs often have static tables or fixed-size strings, which make for arbitrary limits; use dynamic allocation instead." If you create a new file format for your application, there are gb.settings and gb.xml to consider first which provide these things already. Regards, Tobi [0] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/app/struct-db [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Reading-Non_002dFree-Code.html#Reading-Non_002dFree-Code -- "There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
