5 Jul
2006
5 Jul
'06
3:05 p.m.
padawan12 wrote:
Arrays are not the best thing to use for data persistence. Messages constructed using "set" and then textfiles are preferable.
stupid me, but what makes arrays less good than "set" and textfiles? i don't see a real difference between the two (well, you can save non-numeric values in textfiles which you cannot do with arrays (at least not with reasonable effort) and raw "array-files" might be harder to read by a human than textfiles. and you might need to put quite some logic into your loading abstraction to distribute the data to various destinations (and vice-versa when it comes to saving).
but generally there is no realy reason to make arrays less preferable to textfiles.
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