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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 26th Jul 2005 05:01
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How can you use a big string?

When I try to make a big string, it says. "string overflow".

So how can I make a string that can hold more than 10 lines of text?

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Posted: 26th Jul 2005 07:35
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use many strings like this:


You can then save the file, or just print it to the screen.

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James Morgan
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Posted: 26th Jul 2005 08:02
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Like above but use arrays:


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Uncle Sam
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Wow, thanx a lot!

One more thing...when I try to save a string to a file, and I want to save again later, it erases te previous data.

How can I prevent this?

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TDK
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Posted: 27th Jul 2005 15:05
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Before you write out the new data, load the old data.

Then, write the old data back out with the new data tagged on the end.

Your load data routines will have to be able to handle files with varying sizes, so you might want to write a header value at the start of the file saying how much data has to be read in by your load routine.

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Uncle Sam
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Thank you so much!

I made a quick level editor for my game, so that I could see where I was placing my objects, and then it would save the DB code to a file. But since at the time I didn't understand the two things (which I asked above), I had to make a different file for each object! Now it will be different.

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