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minkus
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Posted: 27th Aug 2003 23:51 Edited at: 28th Aug 2003 00:06
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im making a game with like 100 different levels (so far ive made 1) and i need to know how to store data under the data command without writing every single "read word" for every bit of data... because have a 60*40 grid with a 2 - digit number for each square )like 54

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maybe that wasnt very clear

my file that i have made:



my code:



but now, it comes up with 20 seemingly random numbers... not the contents of the file... HELP!!

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Chiwawa
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Posted: 28th Aug 2003 01:24
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lol..... it wont read a WORD....it will reay 2 byte (a word) ..but this is not a STRING...you should use: read STRING!!!!!!

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minkus
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Posted: 28th Aug 2003 02:10 Edited at: 28th Aug 2003 02:11
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but i dont want to get a string i want a 2*-digit number

* = 2 digits, 2 bytes?

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Posted: 28th Aug 2003 04:45
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Posted: 28th Aug 2003 13:53
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your file is actualy a text file, I guess you made it in word or something, if you had written the file from DarkBasic with write word, then you would have got back the correct numbers, but if you had opened it in word it would have been gibberish, different formats, so you need to load each line as a string and then convert it to a number, for example the first line in text will be....

0=ascii 48.......these are the two bytes
1=ascii 49.......you will get in the first word
return=ascii 13

so when you read the word it returns a totaly wrong numeric value (several thousand for a guess), the next time you read a word you get 13 and the ascii for zero from the next number (48) and so on, this is because the numbers are saved as text (strings) so to read them correctly you need to get them as a string and then convert to numbers with val, cheers.

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minkus
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Posted: 28th Aug 2003 20:01 Edited at: 28th Aug 2003 20:22
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actually, i made it in notepad...

[edit] oh... i get it now! thanks

but if i were to make it like a group of data statements like so:



it would return 1, 7 and a bunch of 0s

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make a 2d array
dim myarray(60,40)
rem its really 61,41 but for sanity and clarity we skip the zero


location of the array
store the contents of the 2dimensional data into each array location.

for x = 1 to 60
for y = 1 to 40
myarray(x,y)= rnd(9)+1 :rem your data value eg 1 - 10
next x
next y

save the array using save array
rem use a zero regardless of created size if using classic
save array "lvlX.dat",myarray(0)
load it back in using load array
rem use a zero regardless of created size
load array "lvlX.dat",myarray(0)


undim arrays when you end your proggy or dont need to use them any more

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