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DarkBASIC Discussion / ASCII character output

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Tibbs
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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 10:56
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I am working on a small AI program with a friend, he is writing the "reader" in C++ (because DB isn't that fast), and I am writing the "writer" in Dark Basic. When you output float, long, word, (etc) to a file, and then try to read that in notepad or simple text, it appears as jibberish. Is there any way to output just plain ASCII characters such as the ones you are reading now? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

-Tibbs

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the_winch
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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 12:27
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If you want to write a number just convert it to a string with STR$() and use WRITE STRING to write it to the file.

a# = 123.456
write string 1,str$(a#)

However it is easy to read to read the binary output (jibberish) outputed by db in C/C++. You just read the file the same as any other binary file with the exception that strings are teminated by chr(13)+chr(10).

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Tibbs
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When you write the string containing the number, will it (when you open the text file) show the binary-encoded string or will it have just plain text?

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Plain text.

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Tibbs
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Thank you immensly guys! I appreciate it.

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