9.9. Persistent Storage Modules

In many of the exercises in this text, user input is required for those applications. After many iterations, it may be somewhat frustrating being required to enter the same data repeatedly. The same may occur if you are entering a significant amount of data for use in the future. This is where it becomes useful to have persistent storage, or a way to archive your data so that you may access it at a later time instead of having to re-enter all of that information. When simple disk files are no longer acceptable and full relational database management systems (RDBMSs) are overkill, simple persistent storage fills the gap. The majority of the persistent storage modules deals with storing strings of data, but there ...

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