Each time you post these questions, the best solution is to use XML. Serialize/Deserialize removes the readers; Previous/Next Node handles the comparing; etc., etc.
Sorry, but...are you serious? How do you suggest he get the data in XML format in the first place?
XML is not the Ron Popeil's Dice-o-matic wonder machine.
Paul
It is is most cases but most of you have no idea how to handle or maintain data. Text, CSV, etc. are vehicles of 20 years ago. Look around, everything is in XML for a reason - from AutoCAD settings to Office's new .???x file formats.
I can understand your thinking here, most in this forum don't have a lot of experience with database backends,
xml schema creation, and have little need to share data between applications, it's just the nature of most
AutoCAD programming projects, especially the questions seen in a forum like this. I use a couple code generators
myself for data persistence and database work. These save so much time and easy to extend in the future, I
absolutely love them, but not all projects require the processing and storage overhead that also comes with it.
Paul