Posted by Manish on 07/19/06 07:06

The project I am developing doesn't involves database. I want to parse
the mailbox file (.mbx) and store the summary in the text file for fast
retrieval and display of information in the Inbox page.

The sugegsted format are as:

#1

ID [4 bytes]: Subject [100 bytes]: To Address[100 bytes]: From
Address[100 bytes]...etc...

#2

Instead of preassining fixed size to variable (as actual data may be
much less or can grew to more), we can store the values continuously,
seperated by some unique seperator (#|#, *#*, ...)

1324#|#Hi, How are you#|...@google.com#|#...@google.com#|# ... and so
on

Which of these will be the efficeint one (as there will be frequent
insert/delete/update of the individual information, eg. set message as
read ..., delete message ..., new message ...)

Also please suggest on how to determine the variable size (100 bytes as
in #1), and assign the size to the variable accordingly and read it
(differentiate multiple variables) when required.

Thanks.

Manish

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