Talk:Meta-data in a string

There are several problems with this approach to handling metadata. This includes, but is not limited to, issues with delimiters, the 99 property limitation, and issues with key collisions. I will prepare some alternative functions and post them shortly.

JMB 06:38, 15 October 2007 (UTC): You are right, some limitations could make someone avoid this implementation. It has nevertheless the benefit of being stored in a readable serialized format that can pass through SQL and find the same implentation on client side (.Net for us). And yes, key "MYKEY1" would "MYKEY", so you should set a slightly different name for your keys, unless you use a real word search, like in Useful_string_manipulation_functions.