Navigating XML in LiveCode

[Richard Gaskin]

Graham Samuel wrote:

 > However the real reason that I'm trying to go down the XML route is
 > that I need this data to persist and I don't want the overhead of
 > storing it in a stack rather than just keeping a trivial amount of
 > text which furthermore could be easily examined/edited by non-LC
 > programs.

XML is the way to go for inter-app data transfer, but FWIW if your app 
was the only one using it you can save arrays to disk using 
arrayEncode/arrayDecode:

global gMyArray

on LoadData pFile
    put url ("binfile:"& pFile) into tData
    put arrayDecode(tData) into gMyArray
end LoadData

on SaveData pFile
    put arrayEncode(gMyArray) into tData
    put tData into url ("binfile:" & pFile)
end SaveData


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