Serialising arrays

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Wed Apr 15 15:48:31 EDT 2009


Steve Checkley wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Writing it out to a binfile did the trick. Thanks!
> 
> I wonder why would anybody use an "open, write and close" process rather 
> than "put URL"?

Those commands are good when you need to keep a file open and read it in 
sections, or append data to it, or search it, or any other thing that 
requires reading or writing the file in segments.

If you just need to read or write an entire file all at once, then the 
URL syntax is the way to go.

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