Storing stuff

[Pete]

Thanks y'all

You must be from Southern China!

Random Access files are nice if you are going to be overwriting lots of entries, otherwise sequential files are the way I usually roll. (Another funny expression). Anyway, If you go with sequential, use OPEN FOR BINARY instead of FOR INPUT. Why? Because it's about 10-times faster. With the extra speed, you really don't even have to build hash tables or use SEEK methods to get to dated entries, etc. In other words for less than millions of records, you don't need to design a more complicated file structure.

In school, I got straight A's, except in math, where they were rounded.

Pete