I use this code and it has always worked: /// <summary> /// Turn a string into a CSV cell output /// </summary> /// <param name=”str”>String to output</param> /// <returns>The CSV cell formatted string</returns> public static string StringToCSVCell(string str) { bool mustQuote = (str.Contains(“,”) || str.Contains(“\””) || str.Contains(“\r”) || str.Contains(“\n”)); if (mustQuote) { StringBuilder sb = … Read more
you can diff them you can merge them anyone can edit them they are simple and easy to deal with they are universally accessible to thousands of tools
I’ll add to the it depends crowd. This is the kind of question that has no generic answer but is heavily dependent on the situation at hand. I even recently moved some data from a SQL database to a flat file system because the overhead of the DB, combined with some DB connection reliability issues, … Read more
Well, what is the nature of the flat databases. Are they large or small. Is it simple arrays with arrays in them? if its something simple say userprofiles built as such: $user = array(“name” => “bob”, “age” => 20, “websites” => array(“example.com”,”bob.example.com”,”bob2.example.com”), “and_one” => “more”); and to save or update the db record for that … Read more