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Why deserialize it at all? Just treat it as a number. If the serial is <= the current YYYYMMDD01 then you know that at least a day has passed, so replace it. If not then ++ the serial. It's always faster not to parse at all!

-sam

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Re: Re: Efficient coupling/decoupling of serialized data
by PrakashK (Pilgrim) on Jun 24, 2002 at 22:02 UTC
    ++ the serial
    Just as long as there are no more than 99 versions in a day.

    /prakash

    Update: Of course, your numbering scheme itself breaks if there are more than 99 versions, so my comment above is not really valid.

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      Nothing terrible happens if there are, it just rolls to the next day. 2002010199 becomes 2002010200. The algorithm still works - it's just the humans that get nervous about having a serial number of 2002010200 on Jan 1, 2002.

      -sam

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