Opening Text

[metachief]

I am trying to open a text document that is a bunch of paragraphs. The problem is that I can't get to show the paragraphs with spaces in them.

What I mean is that if for example I want to open a text document containing: "Hi my name is Joe. Turing is a great program, but it is old so it is not as popular as it was."
It will output either "HimynameisJoe.Turingisagreatprogram,butitisoldsoitisnotaspopularasitwas." or it will output "Hi
my
name
is
Joe.
Turing
is
a
great
... (e.t.c.)"

This is my code:

var filenum : int
var stuff : string
open : filenum, "weapons.txt", get
loop
exit when eof (filenum)
get : filenum, stuff
put stuff ..
delay (100)
end loop
close : filenum

Any help would be great..

[fishtastic]

if you use

code:

put stuff ..

then you dont have a space in between them.
why not just put a space then?

code:

put stuff .. put " "..

[MichaelM]

Also, you can use the following

code:

open:streamNumber,"bla.txt",get assert streamNumber>0     get:streamNumber,line:* close: streamNumber

Using the " :* " should get the entire line, including spaces etc.

[BigBear]

The output depends how you get stuff and how you put stuff. If you get stuff with a :1 then you will get the text file by character including spaces. If you get : filenum, stuff :* then you will get the text file line by line. By using get:filenum, stuff you are getting it by word then you are putting that word followed by another word without spaces. Try putting a delay in your loop to see what I mean.

[ericfourfour]

The : operator allows you to specify how many characters you want to get.

Ex:

Turing:

var word : string get word : 5

From whatever is input, it will only use the first five characters.

If you leave the : operator out, it will get the next string separated by whitespace (space, tab, newline, carriage return).

Ex:

Turing:

var word : string get word

In Turing * usually means, when not dealing with math, end. If used in conjunction with the : operator, it will get everything until the end of the line.

Ex:

Turing:

var word : string get word : *

[metachief]

thank you lots