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    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:

    • String category
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