> IMNSHO Lists in Text Files Suck Hard!
>
> Reason: in case you need to view it or edit it in another
> program it is hard
> to make sense of.
>
> Furthemore, converting 3-dimendional lists into CSV or
> Tab-delimited text
> files is a piece of cake. (Incidentally, both formats can be
> read by most
> spreadsheet apps.)
great Pekka, you don't like them, tho lots of Director folks use lists
in text files for databases all the time.
now do you want to supply some code to the person so they can do what
they wanted? i.e. read in an arbitrary line from a text file and parse
the data from it?
Al Hospers
CamberSoft, Inc.
al<at>cambersoft<dot>com
http://www.cambersoft.com
A famous linguist once said:
"There is no language wherein a double
positive can form a negative."
YEAH, RIGHT
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