Re: [dev] Best way to serialize data

On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:19:56 +0200
Džen <yvldwt_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering about which way would be the easiest/simplest to
> serialize data, f.e. being read via a file or stdin (data being a
> table of x rows and y columns, each cell a string). I thought of
> using NULL bytes as cell delimiters and newline characters as row
> delimiters. This way it wouldn't be possible to use \0 nor \n
> inside the "cells", but I couldn't think of a simpler solution.
>
> Something like:
> a \0 b \0 c \n
> d \0 e \0 f \n
> ...
>
> What would you recommend? How'd you do it?

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Robert Ransom