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That's the code. If my logic isn't completely off this should print out line determined by lineNumber parameter right? Why textLine(which is char* type) doesn't work? Using debug I notice it gets bad pointer instead.

And while I'm at this if I get above working then following code would parse text in format of "xxxx;xxxx;xxxx;xxxx" into separate strings of xxxx right?



Sorry about all these basic questions. I just hate handling files

I assume that your variable, textLine is declared like this:
char* textLine;
That is only a pointer, there is nowhere to put the text.

That is the first trouble.

Next, the bad pointer part is caused by the fact that the pointer above is uninitialized. To make an initialized pointer:
char* textLine = NULL;

That still won't fix the real trouble, which is fixed like this:
char textLine[256];

Replace your declaration of textLine with that one, and you will have enough buffer for a string that is 255 characters.

strtok does pretty much work like you wrote above. once you get the loading figured out, you are real close

Correct. I fixed the declaration and indeed now it works like a charm. Apart from textLine not being printed with dbText function(wonder what's up with that) but what matters is that line is read from the file and parsed into nice array.

Thanks!

Ran(again) into trouble while trying to code scenario parser. Basicly utilising function made earlier I try to read second line and put it into first array(and in this case only array) which is declared as char **returnText and initialised like this:



So far so good. In reading first file it worked like charm(easy to prove as without it working I couldn't turn the ship!) but here something weird happens.



I have debugged problem to be around here. sprintf works, I get the scenarioFile to be what I wish. parseLine function returns and I can see in debugger parsedText[0] contains the ss2.jpg text I'm looking for. Stays there for dbMakeObjectSphere but when I then press F10 in debugger the ss2.jpg dissapears! So later here:



I'm trying to load "" filename which obviously results in very white background.

What could cause that dissapearing variable? If it didn't work so nicely with the other use I would suspect problem at parseLine function but here I'm out of ideas.