Records

[hskhan]

How would i create / input / output data into a record?

[PaddyLong]

here is a very simple one that demonstrates what I think you are asking

code:

var person :     record         name : string         age : int     end record person.name := "Paddy" person.age := 17 put person.name, " is ", person.age, " years old"

[Andy]

ya you could also create an artifical type like that
type data:
record
name : string
age : int
end record

[Andy]

whoa paddylong, you indent even on compsci.ca?

[hskhan]

I need a record, and text file combo that checks if a record exists before. how can i check if the record has been added to the text file? Could you please help. Thanks.
So far I have :

code:

type playerRec :     record         User : string (5)         PlayerScore : int     end record var rplayer : playerRec var name : string put "Name" .. get name var getname : string := "" loop     if length (name) <= 5 then         rplayer.User := name         var fout : int         open : fout, "outputfile.txt", write, mod, seek         seek : fout, *         write : fout, rplayer         close : fout         put "Added"         exit     end if end loop

[PaddyLong]

dodge_tomahawk wrote:

whoa paddylong, you indent even on compsci.ca?

I type it in turing and press f2 then copy and paste

I would say to read your entire file into an array of records (probably use a flexible array for this) then search through it to check if the data inside it is the same as any of the ones in the array

[Andy]

you should take the open satement out of the loop