data file
noun[C]
ITukusacomputerfilethatcontainsinformationsuch as words,numbers, orpictures,ratherthan acomputerfilethatcontainsaprogram:
Back up all ofyourdatafilesat leastonceaweek.
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This data was then sent by email to the editors and was also written to adatafile.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Every key in this file is associated with a particular pointer "to the block" in the sorteddatafile.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This meant that the program no longer required advance knowledge of the data structure, but rather could ask thedatafilehow it was structured.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Typically each record of adatafilewould be recorded in one punched card, with specific columns assigned to specific fields.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Inserts are easy too, because new rows are appended to the end of thedatafile.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Then the user (programmer) just needs to specify the "class" for eachdatafile(often by using shop standard naming rules).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are other circumstances where a module may fail to record adatafileas well.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The database is a simpledatafilecontaining records, each is a pair of a key and a value.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Apart from the rendered graphic, the model is contained within the graphicaldatafile.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This allows the user to either further process the result of every operation or the results as adatafile.
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