Text Files

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Feb 7 2002, 12:54 pm
I have a few questions about text files within BYOND:

- How do you create one? New("Text.txt") does not seem to work.

- How do you create a hard enter in a text file? Does \n do it?

Thanks for your time.

-Lord of Water
Feb 7 2002, 12:57 pm
- How do you create one? New("Text.txt") does not seem to work.

var/file/textfile = file("text.txt")
Will, I believe, do it. You can then do
textfile << "Blah"
to append "Blah" onto the end of the file.

If not, there's a text2file() (and matching file2text()) proc that you should look into.

- How do you create a hard enter in a text file? Does \n do it?

Yes.

-AbyssDragon
Feb 7 2002, 1:08 pm
In response to AbyssDragon
Ahh crap, I've been doing the whole ImportText ExportText thing and I could have just been doing src << file2text("desc.txt"). I wish someone would have pointed this out to me earlier! :oP

So...anyone know of any advantages of one over the other? Besides ImportText being able to have multiple descriptions from the same file?
Feb 7 2002, 1:12 pm
In response to Foomer
ImportText and ExportText are specifically for changing savefiles into a human-readable format (and back again). I'm not even sure how you'd go about using them for general text-file manipulation...

-AbyssDragon
Feb 8 2002, 5:58 pm
In response to AbyssDragon
I may be doing something completely wrong here, but I get compiled problems:
proc/Save()
    var/file/T = file("FlashCards -- \[[CardsName]].txt")
    text2file("Hello/nHello",T)

Gives me the following errors:

FlashCard Maker.dm:44:error:T:undefined type: T
FlashCard Maker.dm:43:T :warning: variable defined but not used

It would seem to me that I did define T, and that T is used. Am I wrong? Am I using text2file() or file() incorrectly?

Thanks again.

-Lord of Water