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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed
Date: 31 May 2002 08:52:19 -0700
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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message news:<3CF6AE0E.3847AA4F@san.rr.com>...
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> > Lets keep it simple. I don't know what CSV is, but if somebody has to
> > install a database to use my small program then I think they would look
> > elsewhere. Me too for that matter :-)
> 
> CSV is Comma-Separated-Values. A spreadsheet would look something like
> 
> "r1c1", "r1c2", "r1c3"
> "r2c1", "r2c2", "r2c3"
> 
> Works well when your configuration is a table rather than a bunch of
> individual thingies.

Right. Just to make things perfectly clear, its a *text* format, with
some structure to it. The number 32 in a field would show up as 32,
not a.

On the project I worked on that used them, I usually used Emacs to
edit the files, rather than bother with a spreadsheet or DB program.
But some people did prefer the database program, and having in that
format allows people to do DB queries on the file (quite useful if it
gets large).

Not that this is the option I'm pushing. Its just *an* option.


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