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Hi guys, I need some help/advice on a program i'm making. I have this game see, and I downloaded a heap of third party mods for it but unfortuantly people like to make "over-the-top-kill-anything-one-shot" type mods. So what i usually do is just change the text files that come with them so they are more balanced with the original game, thus making it more fun. All i really need is the models so I have something different to shoot at.

So what i'm thinking is make a program, drop it in with all the mod files and it will just run through each file, change the appropriate fields (health, ammo, guns .etc) to what I want so the game is more balanced. Problem is, i'm not too sure how to locate the fields in the text files... I need to be able to search for an individual word on several lines, or something between brackets for example.

I've had a look through the forums and the code base. Found afew dbp examples that look like they might be what I want. I've tried converting them over to the GDK but the one i'm trying at the moment doesn't seem to return the results i'd expect. I'll keep at it, but any suggestions/examples would be appreaciated! Thanks.

I know what you want, but its hard to explain.
Its even hard for me to understand after using it.
What you need is called "Regular Expressions", search for that for some documentation and examples.

Make an application that looks in all the files for strings that match some regular expressions you make and replacing the found values with whatever you want.

In C# you will need the Regex class from the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace.

I think the freely available C++ Boost library has regexps. I use regexps a lot but only on C# and VB.