On 17 May, 2009, at 15:04, MRAB wrote:
Alexander Shigin wrote:В Сбт, 16/05/2009 в 23:15 +0100, MRAB пишет:The '\0' char is invalid in both windows and posix. I don't know if oneFYI, on RISC OS '/' is a valid filename character and '.' is used as the directory separator. I'd probably say that TAB is s reasonable character to use, even though it's OK in POSIX; after all, should anyone really be using a control character in a filename?valid on RISC OS.'\0' isn't a valid filename character on RISC OS.
Wouldn't it be possible to use a CSV file for this? That way we wouldn't have to invent yet another escaping mechanism and there's already good suppport for reading and writing CSV files in the standard library.
Ronald
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