Plain Text files
Wikipedia on Plain Text
Wikipedia on Character Encodings
Wikipedia on Unicode
Related nodes
Reader (String)
Writer (String)
vvvv uses Unicode internally but it allows you to read and write plain text files in any encoding you like.
Plain Text files are good for:
- saving texts
- saving values in a human-readable form
Their weakness:
- big size of the files
- conversion of values into characters & loosing precision
Files that contain markup or other meta-data are generally considered plain-text.
- Simple peers like CSV can be parsed using the nodes from the String category.
- For XML files use the XElement nodes.
- For a bit more advanced pattern matching use Regular Expressions.
Examples in your vvvv\girlpower\ directory:
- \IO\Files
See also: