Structure or Data Type I/O

[BKM]

Is there an easy way to read and write Data Types to files or do I have to
have Input and output statements for each variable in the Data Type?

[Larry Serflaten]

"BKM" <tr******@thebottomofthestairs.com> wrote

Is there an easy way to read and write Data Types to files or do I have to
have Input and output statements for each variable in the Data Type?

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LFS

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[J French]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 03:21:23 -0500, "BKM"
<tr******@thebottomofthestairs.com> wrote:

Is there an easy way to read and write Data Types to files or do I have to
have Input and output statements for each variable in the Data Type?

Could you explain what you want to do in a bit more detail

[BKM]

Thanks. That's just what I was looking for.

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"BKM" <tr******@thebottomofthestairs.com> wrote

Is there an easy way to read and write Data Types to files or do I have to have Input and output statements for each variable in the Data Type?

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...%40tkmsftngp05
LFS

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[J French]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:53:50 -0500, "BKM"
<tr******@thebottomofthestairs.com> wrote:

Thanks. That's just what I was looking for.

Hmm ...

I would be very wary about that approach

IMO and IME data files should be in a format that can easily be read
by any language - not just VB5/6

[Larry Serflaten]

"J French" <er*****@nowhere.com> wrote

Thanks. That's just what I was looking for.

Hmm ...

I would be very wary about that approach

IMO and IME data files should be in a format that can easily be read
by any language - not just VB5/6

Can you elaborate?
What hinders some other language from reading a UDT stuffed into a file?
Consider, for example, a GIF file. It is image data, contained in a file.
What has language got to do with getting that data back out?

LFS

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[J French]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:26:30 -0600, "Larry Serflaten"
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"J French" <er*****@nowhere.com> wrote

>Thanks. That's just what I was looking for.
>

Hmm ...

I would be very wary about that approach

IMO and IME data files should be in a format that can easily be read
by any language - not just VB5/6

Can you elaborate?
What hinders some other language from reading a UDT stuffed into a file?
Consider, for example, a GIF file. It is image data, contained in a file.
What has language got to do with getting that data back out?

GIF is a format that is independant of language
A header with (patented) LZW compression

The storage of an OleVarient or a VB String is something rather
different

Ever tried to decifer Pascal 6 byte Floats ?

Anyway, it is pretty irrelevant, given a few years you will be saying
the same thing. Language specific storage is a PITA.

[Larry Serflaten]

> >"J French" <er*****@nowhere.com>

The storage of an OleVarient or a VB String is something rather
different
OK, I'll give you that one, a Variant would be a special case, but not a
show stopper. I could use any language, and knowing the format, could
still get that exact data back. A file is just data, regaurdless of how it got
there.

Anyway, it is pretty irrelevant, given a few years you will be saying
the same thing. Language specific storage is a PITA.

I doubt that, I started in the mid 70's, and I still think ease of use is a
big plus, as was indicated in the linked text.

LFS


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[J French]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:57:37 -0600, "Larry Serflaten"
<Fi******@RiskOfBeingSpam.med> wrote:

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Anyway, it is pretty irrelevant, given a few years you will be saying
the same thing. Language specific storage is a PITA.

I doubt that, I started in the mid 70's, and I still think ease of use is a
big plus, as was indicated in the linked text.

Hmm.. I really started in 1977 - on a teletype mainframe

Since then I have 'been on the road to Damascus' a number of times

One of my greatest pleasures is hearing younger guys that I trained,
coming up with what I was saying many years ago
- and at the time they were trying to 'be clever coders'

Consider this, VB Classic is discontinued, you probably will not want
to migrate to VB.NET, so you'll be hunting around
- you may go for Delphi
- or you may go for a yet to be released version of Java
- probably the latter - not an insult - believe me

Proprietary data structures will then infuriate you

Cross-language coders are pretty common
- Personally I use VB and Delphi
- both have 'native' filing quirks, that one avoids like the plague

While I reckon that your 'Damascene conversion' is rather overdue
- it will happen