Thomas wrote: > Your first problem is that the survey results are stored > in a file. > They should really have been stored in a backend database > like MySQL
I like data files, preferably flat ASCII text files. My favourite format uses tabs and newlines as column and row separators respectively. With this format you can copy and paste to/from Excel with ease. The files can also be read easily by R, the statistical analysis package. And of course they can be generated and read trivially with any programming language, even C. Databases are unnecessary for many purposes. Sledgehammers and nuts come to mind. David
