Writing to files is one of the most important things you will learn in any new programming language. This allows you to save user data for future reference, to manipulate large data sets, or to build ...

My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

Readers suggest tools for to address the daunting problem of converting XML formatted data to CSV. Things may come and things may go, but the need to convert data formats will go on forever. That, ...