"The Confessor" wrote:

> For my previous project, I stored persistent data from Structures in three
> different Random Access files between sessions, but that's not likely to be
> an option with this one...
>
> For starters, I'm trying to become more 'class-aware' with my code in this
> project. I've declared those global variables which will be written to and
> read from files in their own class, named VariableTemplate, and
> instantiated it globally with 'Friend Variable as VariableTemplate.'
>
> Additionally, if I use multiple files I'll need to preface the data in each
> file with a common randomly-generated number to ensure that all files to be
> loaded were written in the same program session, from the same dataset.
>
> I'd be obliged if somebody could point me toward my best option given these 
> constraints... and more obliged if they could direct me toward a good
> novice-geared reference on the subject.
>