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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / remarks within files

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Rwilson
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 07:39
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Basically, I plan on allowing some form of modibility in my game. Within the files, I am wishing to put some basic notes on what does what, so that it may be on hand when modding. Is there a simple method, such as putting a apostrophe before a line, to cause DBPro to skip that line when reading a file? I realize that one could create a routine with Left$() and Right$(), but if there's a simpler method, why bother?

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mimesis
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 08:09 Edited at: 15th Oct 2003 08:21
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you can use (rem) or the short version (`)

example

rem your description

or

` your description

Edit:
If FileIO is what your thinking then it's another matter.
It should be easy to skip any string you wish in the file dbp is
reading.

example.

read string 1,data$
if left$(data$,3) = "rem"
skip this string
else
extract data from string
endif

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Rwilson
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 08:21 Edited at: 15th Oct 2003 08:21
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Yes, I know you can do this within DarkBasic Code, But I am refering to entirely seperate files from the code. I am referring to seperate files, like a "unitdata.dat" or "configfile.ini" or something of that nature. Just to give a small example, assume all one has to do is a ' to remark a line

' The next three lines are unit data 1
The Tank!
500
20
' The next three lines are unit data 2
The Helicopter!
300
14
' This number changes the turn max
500
' etc
etc

Do you get the Idea?

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mimesis
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yepp, I edited my post

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mimesis
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 08:41
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... and nope, I cant think of any simpler method to do this without left$().

It isnt that much harder to use left$() to do this

Your example would be read like:

read data$
if left$(data$,1) = "'"
...skip remark
else
...read gamedata$
endif

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IanM
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 15:28
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That's fairly easy ... just a bit of string manipulation

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i was going to recommend using Trim$() before checking, that way you would just have to check the first character afterwards.

but i don't see a Trim$() function in DBPro. No Trim$() function???

That seems to me to be a pretty basic BASIC command!

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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 16:29
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You can either download my utility DLL, or write your own - it's not too difficult
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Rwilson
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 17:56
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Thanks all! Despite the fact that I'll still have to use left$(), your examples have given me a pretty good clue as to how to implement it.

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I have a snippet I added to the codebase that does exactly what you want. Not as fancy as the Dlls available, but easy to understand, and works just like the good old ini files of the Win 3.1 days.

http://darkbasic.thegamecreators.com/?m=codebase_view&i=83c96ad254333bb13782657d45a24e23

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David T
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 19:53 Edited at: 15th Oct 2003 19:53
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You could make a function to do the work for you, so your code is as easy to read as possible:



Just a little example, don't know if it'll work. It should though.

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