> > I think most people would agree that the simplest and most
> > maintaintable formats for shell scripts and similar programs are
> > locale independent, byte order independent, arbitrary precision,
> > trivially parsible text with one record per line, all lines having
> > the same format, except for possibly one or more well defined
> > preamble lines that are trivial to skip.
>
> Well, I would. But what about programs that aren't shell scripts or
> similar?
What about them? fscanf should be able to handle the above type of
format quite nicely.
-Scott
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