reading files

[Selfi]

im trying to read in a file using get, go to a random line, and put everything on that line in a variable, but ive had no luck so far. everytime i try to do this the word gets all cut off. its for a hangman game, any help?

[GB]

You have to declare different variables for them. Post the script, and then I'll help out.

[Selfi]

what do you mean i need to declare different variables for them? im only trying to read in one line

[Selfi]

all im trying to do is read in a random line, thats it

[guruguru]

Go through all the lines until you get to your line, then that is the last thing your string variables is assigned to. Kinda unefficient though me thinks .

code:

var myFile : string := "myFile.txt" var fileNumber : int var randString : string var randomLine : int randint (randomLine, 0, 100) open : fileNumber, myFile, get for i : 1 .. randomLine     exit when eof     get : randString * end for close : fileNumber put randString

[Selfi]

that dosent exactly work for me, here, ill post the file and my code

[Selfi]

you can try your code with it too, it still won't produce a full line

[guruguru]

I'll tell ya why. Seek searches per byte. A byte is one letter. Hence, you are searching between 1 and 85 bytest into the file. Seek is hard to use. My code is faulty... working on it right now...

[Selfi]

ah, that would explain it then. it said "fileposition" in the help file, so i just assumed fileposition would be the line

[Selfi]

ahh got it, thanks alot for your help

code:

var myFile : string := "music.hman" var fileNumber : int var randString : string var randomLine : int randint (randomLine, 0, 84) open : fileNumber, myFile, get for i : 1 .. randomLine     exit when eof (fileNumber)     get : fileNumber, randString : * end for close : fileNumber put randString

[guruguru]

No problem. Glad you got it working! Just a curiosity... there are less than 50 lines in the file you provided, yet you are making a variable that adheres to a file of up to 84 lines!? Is that a mistake or is your real/renewed file longer?

And what is this to be? Are you making a Windows Media Player type thing to play songs from data file? That would be pretty cool...