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Jun 28th, 2005 at 5:06pm
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I'm considering storing things like paths for xlookups within my applications in a text file that I read and parse into global variables when I start an application.  The reason I'm thinking of doing it in a text file instead of a database (the way I have it in my current and very old Q&A4 app) is so that my client's system administrator can feel comfortable moving files and directories around as necessary and updating the text file. 

Any thoughts and advice on best practices for the structure and location of this file?  The system will be multi-user client-server.  I would really prefer the text file with the paths to be on the server side, but I'm not really sure where or if that will work.  For one thing, there's the likelihood of drive mapping differences among the different clients. 

Can Sesame use the \\ drive location syntax?  (heck, I forget that that standard is called)
  
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Reply #1 - Jun 30th, 2005 at 4:28pm
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Hello,

The path file can be structured however you want it to be as long as you can parse it out in code.

Yes, Sesame does support UNC (The \\ drive location syntax)

An example of this would be..

Paths.txt contains
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XLookupPath;C:\Sesame\Data
ImagePath;C:\Sesame\Pics


The code to parse would be
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Var vPaths as String
Var vInfo as String
Var vName as String
Var vPath as String

vPaths = @Insert("\\ComputerName\c\Sesame\Paths.txt")

While @Len(vPaths) > 0
{
   vInfo = Split(vPaths, @Newline())
   vName = @AccessStringArray(vInfo, 1)
   vPath = @AccessStringArray(vInfo, 2)
   GlobalValue(vName, vPath)
}


This would create two GlobalValues with the names of XLookupPath and ImagePath and store the appropriate paths in them.

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Reply #2 - Jun 30th, 2005 at 7:44pm
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Thanks for the info, and especially the example.  I missed the GlobalValue procedure and did it the yucky hard way with a big if statement and hard-coded global variable names. 

  
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