Packing a simple dictionary into a string - extending struct?

[Jonathan Fine]

"Sridhar Ratna" <sridhar.ratna at gmail.com> wrote in message

> What about JSON? You can serialize your dictionary, for example, in
> JSON format and then unserialize it in any language that has a JSON
> parser (unless it is Javascript).

Thank you for this suggestion.  The growing adoption of JSON in Ajax
programming is a strong argument for my using it in my application, although
I think I'd prefer something a little more binary.

So it looks like I'll be using JSON.

Thanks.


Jonathan