I'd do one better than that. Pass it a file handle (glob) instead of the file name. That way, you can have it read from aynthing that's filehandle driven, like a tcp/ip socket. If it's done right, that the class only reads the minimum amount of data FOR a car, you can put multiple cars in one file and initialize multipl objects like that. Or if it makes you happy, mix-and match data in your data stream so that you can read a car, then a person, then a drink, then a cow.. you get my drift.

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In reply to Re^2: Advice on OO Program structure & organization by exussum0
in thread Advice on OO Program structure & organization by yoda54

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