Datafile write troubl

[jrblast]

For my block breaker game which I'm making I also want to make a level maker (I have it so that it reads the level from a datafile) but when I write the level, lots of extra spaces show up and the new line char shows up as a square...not a new line... heres the code, is there anything wrong? is it a bug? or what....

code:

var lineBreak : string := chr (10)     var clr : string                    %variable for colour     open : streamIn, (file + ".txt"), write, seek     seek : streamIn, 0     for y : 1 .. rows         for x : 1 .. cols             if blockColour (x,y) <= 0 then                 clr := "0"             else                 clr := intstr (blockColour (x,y)) (1..1)             end if             write : streamIn, clr             locate (16,1)             put clr, " " , x, " ", y             View.Update             loop                 mousewhere (mouseX, mouseY, button)                 exit when button > 0             end loop             delay (100)         end for         write : streamIn, lineBreak     end for     close : streamIn

I'll attatch an example of a file it created...a 30 KB text file o.O(Oh, and the blockColour variable is a 2-D array). The good news is its not as bad as my little mistake yesterday...where i CREATED 19, 500 text files. LMAO

[Cervantes]

Try it with put instead of write.

Also, there's no point in seeking to the beginning. When you open a file without giving it mod ability, it clears the file and begins writing from the beginning.

[MysticVegeta]

I think read and write are more for files with nontext extension...? perhaps. not sure though.

[jrblast]

Cervantes wrote:

Try it with put instead of write.

Also, there's no point in seeking to the beginning. When you open a file without giving it mod ability, it clears the file and begins writing from the beginning.

Okay, that seems to have worked. Thanks

@MysticVegeta: Hmmm...That makes sense I guess.

[codemage]

Put & get make raw text style output.
That makes error checking / debugging your output much, much simpler.

[Cervantes]

MysticVegeta wrote:

I think read and write are more for files with nontext extension...? perhaps. not sure though.

You can give a file any extension you want. It doesn't change the contents of the file. However, using read and write will not produce readable output, as they are for random access, and work in a binary format, rather than standard ASCII.