Making Monsters in a game?

[feebas200]

how do I make a save file for my game so that people can recontinue?

[goroyoshi]

http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=12972
check file input/output
essentially it is using a text file to save a bunch of variables

[feebas200]

I can get the score to save, but it overwrites the old one each time a new one is entered.

[Tony]

What do you want it to do instead?

[feebas200]

i want it to make a list of the top 10 scores.
this is what i tried, it would overite the old one each time. I want to make a list of top 10 players.
This is for my final culminating project that is due tomorrow. Please help! Thanks

for i : 1 .. 1
open : stream, "myText.txt", get
get : stream, name (i)
open : stream, "myText.txt", put
cls
put "What is your name"
View.Update
get name (i) : *
View.Update
put : stream, name (i), " " : 10, minutes, ":", seconds, ".", milliseconds
put "Your score will be saved!"
put name (i), " ", minutes, ":", seconds, ".", milliseconds
View.Update
close : stream
end for

[Tony]

Nothing in that code suggests that 10 players are involved.

- you need to remember that writing to a file starts from the top, and will over-write previous content.
- "top 10" suggests that scores need to be sorted, to figure out which ones are in that list.

[feebas200]

how will I be able to add code with out overwriting? I tried retrieving the file first so it has the current info and then writing it but it still overites the old text.

[Tony]

You are opening a new stream for writing _after_ reading, so that starts at the start again. Besides, this wound't works with variable-sized lines.

Overwriting the entire file is the easiest thing to do.