Fredrik Tolf wrote:

That, however, can be solved in a much nicer way, in that case. I
would imagine it to be better in that case to leave the fields that
should not be updated being the empty string, like this:

desc "new nick" "" "" "" 4 ""

Isn't that even better?
 

No, not particularly - especially if you think of it in terms of XML and attributes.  Or if you want to make it extensible.

- Todd