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Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

> Well, I would use nested data. (A file will have extra fields besides
> the name.) That is why I was thinking about json. But I will look into
> it.

An alternative, very similar to JSON but with some good cherries picked from
YAML is AXON, which is my preferite these days for this kind of things.
http://intellimath.bitbucket.org/axon/

ciao, lele.
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