On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 11:28 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 12:10 AM, Mark Brownell wrote:
I want to put the XML text of each transaction into 300 separate items of an array. I then would like to save this array as an external file. It wouldn't be saved as text it would be saved as an array file. I could then use answer to open it with my application that could then access it.
You CAN do exactly that by using a "data stack" via custom properties! See this excellent post by Richard http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/tips/stk001.htm
Alex Rice, Software Developer
Also from the article:
"Another tip: If you want to store data in a way that isn't obvious for someone to read if they open the stack file in a binary editor, you can use the compress and decompress functions on data you store in custom props, which will also reduce the size of the data file."
I could also add Blowfish encryption to this at this point. Compression and encryption, all in a neat package, nice. It looks like it might work fine as a blob storage system as well.
I guess I'm just a thick-head. Thanks for showing me this in a way that I could relate to it. This is exactly what I needed.
Mark
