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Any way to GetLetter?

by Laralyn McWilliams · in Torque Game Builder · 05/01/2010 (1:02 pm) · 5 replies

I'm making a kind of maze game, and I'd like to store my level layouts in a really readable format like this:

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XX                  XXX     XX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX XX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X    X
XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X    X
XXX XXX                 X    X
XXX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXX XXX                     XX
XXX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX
XXX XXX XXX        X XXX     X
XXX       X        X XXX XXXXX
XXXXXXXXX X        X XXX XXXXX
XXXXXXXXX XXX XXXXXX XXX XXXXX
XXX     X XXX              XXX
XXX     X XXXXX XXXX XXX XXXXX
XXX     X X        X X       X
XXX       X        X X       X
XXX       X        XXX       X
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

I understand how to use getWord to read in a text file, but I don't see any way to read a single letter/character unless you use a delimiter (for getField or getRecord).

Is there a way to "getLetter" for fileIO?

Thanks!
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Torque Owner Kevin James
#1
05/01/2010 (1:12 pm)
read it from the file normally and then parse the string you get with a char function. I'm not sure what TGB has but it probably looks like this:

char(string, place, count)

%x = char(%filestring, %n, 1);

Torque Owner Shaderman
#2
05/01/2010 (1:17 pm)
AFAIK there's no way to read single chars from a file. You can read lines from the file and use getWord to get single characters though.

%line = %file.readLine();
%char = getWord(%line, %LINE_INDEX);

Torque Owner Laralyn McWilliams
#3
05/01/2010 (4:29 pm)
Ah ha! You guys got me on the right track. I can use

getSubStr(%string, %start, %numChars)

to parse the line, one character at a time. It's a simple loop because the line length will always be the same.

Thanks! :-)

Torque Owner RollerJesus
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#4
05/02/2010 (8:15 am)
If the strings happen to not be the same length for some reason, you can use strlen to loop through.
%length = strlen(%newText);   
for(%i = 0; %i < %length; %i++)
{
   %currentLetter = getSubStr(%newText,%i,1);  
}

Patrick

Torque Owner Kevin James
#5
05/02/2010 (11:15 am)
Good call Patrick. I would use strLen regardless of whether or not the length is the same. Its the same now, but what about after the Nth revision.