From: nobu.nokada@... Date: 2002-11-13T08:36:02+09:00 Subject: Re: File Packing Ideas - FINAL Hi, At Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:35:08 +0900, Vera, Michael wrote: > Thank you for your input! I now do the following: > 1) jam readlines into an array after chomping > 2) marshal the array into some funky string > 3) cgi.escape the marshaled string!! > 4) (I *should* compress the sucker just for good measure) > 5) (if you were really anal you could invent another step here -- oo! You > could "Captain" the escaped marshalled string array) I'm not sure why you want to split data and chomp them. Why not just: 1) read data into a string (with compressing) 2) send cgi.escape(string) or string.dump -- Nobu Nakada