Seting variables with txt files

[copthesaint]

This is a tutorial but it's made in 2003
http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=5&highlight=seting+vars+txt+files

I'm just wondering does this still apply to the new turing ver?
Also how would I know what loads what from the text file?
Can you accually rename the txt file then load it every time? (probably would take multiple text files)
Can turing create text files?
If so can turing delet them?
How does it acually SET vars with txt files (eg fun:= 3)
Can someone help me?

[The_Bean]

Yes this still applies to the newer version.
When you get information from the text file, you can get it line by line, or word by word separated by spaces.
Yes you can rename a text file using File.Rename() although you would have to know what the old name was first.
Yes Turing can create text files, you if you try to put to a file that doesn't exist it will make one.
Turing can delete files using File.Delete.
To actually set variables:
- create the variable in turing depending on what information your getting
- open the stream to the file with the capability 'get'
- get: streamNumber , variable
- this will set the variable to the first word or integer in the text file.
Yes I can help you.

[copthesaint]

Okay I didn't really need help

I spent 20 min and learned how to set vars from my text file (Sorry Bean But Tanks ne ways)

The only thing I do not know how to do is get turing to re write the variable values anyone know how too?

this is what I did on my own
ALSO can I encrypt files? and still get the same values?

[TheGuardian001]

by having it re-write the variables, do you mean having it output a new value to the file, or just changing it locally? Locally, just treat it as a regular variable, for outputting to the file, This tutorial should point you in the right direction.

As for encryption, yes, technically anything you output to a text file can be encrypted, however as Turing has no built in encryption method, you would need to write your own encryption/decryption algorithm, and run the variables through it before outputting them to the file.

for example (this is pretty basic, it just replaces letters with other predefined letters )

code:

%decrypt for i : 1 .. length(myString) %go through the entire string     if myString(i) = a then         newString += s     elsif myString(i) = b then         newString += o     %etc etc     end if end for %encrypt for i : 1 .. length(newString)     if newString(i) = s then         myString += a     elsif newString(i) = o then         myString(i) += b     %etc etc etc     end if end for put : filename, myString

[copthesaint]

I don'y realy care about that so much right now I just want to export my vars when I save to the txt file. After that its all working then I will see about encrypting it