Re: reading and writing file names - thanks

2008-01-07 Thread Dale Mosby
Tom - Thanks for the pointer to storable. Think that is what I need for this current operation. And Chas - Thanks for the pointer to csv. I knew of it, though never used it. I did not know it would escape the delimiter, but of course that makes perfect sense! I think there is some author that is a

reading and writing file names

2008-01-07 Thread Dale Mosby
I am trying to think of a good way to write to a file a path/filename along with some additional data, and then read it back later. While this is strictly Linux now, I would like the code to work across platforms if possible. I realize that I will have to deal with translation of the path delimite