Writing Data to a File, Continued

Think this through a little bit:

• Assume we're collecting bearcat ID, first name, and last name from an HTML form.
• First, we get the data from the web page.
• Next, we write the data to a file, but we need a special character, called a delimiter, to separate the fields.
• Tab is common, but you can use anything.
• Just make sure the user did not use that same character.  If so, your file will be corrupt!
• Write bearcatID, delimiter, firstname, delimiter, lastname, then the new line escape.
• That way, each visitor will have a unique line in the file, containing all of his/her data.
• A file written from a page with three visitors would like like this:


jonesbr~Brandan~Jones
goodmasm~Goodman~Spiff
wayl~Lee~Way
 

• Now, we have three records in a file, with three fields of data each.  Think of an Excel spreadsheet with data in three colums and three rows.
• Example:  writedata.html