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Twinsen
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Posted: 12th Mar 2008 07:39
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hello! I have 2 questions regarding the read and write possibilities ( just from a file )

1) when using READ STRING, let's say I have a file with 3 lines ... how can I read each line in a string ???
2) when using WRITE BYTE, I say for example ( write byte 1, 128 ) but the thing is that it writes a weird character ... so how am I supposed to know the character equivalent of a byte ??? Is there a byte to character conversion tool ??? cause I want to be able to write for example "A" using the WRITE BYTE command, not WRITE STRING ... thanks

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Posted: 12th Mar 2008 09:39
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1. Use a string array.

2. All ASCII characters are 1 byte long. Use ASC() to get the ASCII code of the character. Chr$() is the reverse - giving you the character from the ASCII code.

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Twinsen
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Posted: 13th Mar 2008 16:59
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what about this: let's say I have a file with 5 lines and I want each line to be read inside a separate string ... how would I do that ???

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Posted: 13th Mar 2008 21:45
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aha thanks a lot that's what I did but I thought it was a wrong method

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Posted: 13th Mar 2008 23:29
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Why would you even do that? What if later on you need to update the program to read 10 lines?



This does put each line into a separate variable, but the number of lines can be changed by changing a single number and each variable, being an array is infinitely more flexible than:



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wopeee now I finally got arrays in DBPRO thanks a million TDK !!!

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For more on arrays, check out tutorial number 1 here:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=99497&b=10

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