Is it a good way to store data in a .txt file?

Question

Is it a good way to store data using .txt files?
e.g. Java -> import java.io.file
C++ -> include <fstream>

Answer 1

txt is one of the possible choices. But there can be ini, json, xml and other human readable formats. But you can choose not human readable, for example some binary format or your own format. For example sql localdb uses its own format. You must understand that you use disc resources, so it is not good to read and write very often. You can accumulate some buffer in memory before writing, so does logging works for example in nginx server. If you only read data, then read it once when it needs and load into memory, then just watch for date when the file was changed or some other flag or signal.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Depends on how often you'll be retrieving it and whether it is structured or not...you can use human readable formats like xml...or serialized ones or just plain text. All that depends on what you want to solve

Answer 4

Depends on what are you going to do with them. It could be better to se e.g. .json or .xml if you have it structured, but if you have just plain text it is no problem.

Answer 5

Is it problematic to load and save a file (the same file) very often (for safety reasons)?

Answer 6

Txt file extension is useful if you open this file with win default editor. Otherwise file extension is no matter for your program/project.

Answer 7

No... Bad idea, too open