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Golelorn

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Posted: 18th Aug 2018 03:21 Edited at: 18th Aug 2018 19:08

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EDIT:
I have solved this. Read the last post for the answer. This is not readily apparent to newbs. Spent way too much time on this. Perhaps, update in the help files that ReadLine will continue to read the next line if the file is open. That would have solved hours of frustration.

No idea why I can't get any command to read the lines in this file.

I have tried readline and readstring. I have seterror(mode) =2.

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Floor:1:0.000000:0.040000:-4.000000:-0.000000:0.000000:0.000000:
Fire Pit:0:0.000000:0.040000:-4.000000:-0.000000:0.000000:0.000000:
Floor:1:1.000000:0.040000:-4.000000:-0.000000:0.000000:0.000000:
Wall:1:1.000000:0.040000:-3.500000:-0.000000:0.000000:0.000000:
Wall:1:1.000000:0.040000:-4.500000:-0.000000:0.000000:0.000000:
Garden:0:2.000000:0.040000:-7.000000:-0.000000:0.000000:0.000000:

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		OpenToRead( 1, "home_area_save.txt" )
		objdata$ = ReadLine( 1 )
		CloseFile( 1 )
		token_count = CountStringTokens( objdata$, ":" )
		file_lines = token_count/8
		h as Home_Objects
		for i = 0 to file_lines-1
			h.desc = GetStringToken( objdata$, ":",(i*8)+1)
			level = Val(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":",(i*8)+2))
			x# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":",(i*8)+3))
			y# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":",(i*8)+4))
			z# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":",(i*8)+5))
			rotx# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":",(i*8)+6))
			roty# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":",(i*8)+7))
			rotz# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":",(i*8)+8)
....... etc

Only the first line is returned so token_count = 8

Code to write to file

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			if house_construction.length > 0 
				for i = 0 to house_construction.length
					WriteLine( home_area_save, house_construction[i].desc +":" +str(house_construction[i].level) +":" +str(GetObjectX( house_construction[i].ID ) ) +":" +str(GetObjectY( house_construction[i].ID ) )+":" +str(GetObjectZ( house_construction[i].ID ) ) +":" +str( GetObjectAngleX( house_construction[i].ID ) ) +":" +str( GetObjectAngleY( house_construction[i].ID ) ) +":" +str( GetObjectAngleZ( house_construction[i].ID ) ) )
				next i
			endif

Not sure what I am doing wrong here. I have tried both line and string commands. Only getting the first line read.

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Bengismo

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Posted: 18th Aug 2018 04:28

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You dont appear to be opening file id 1 at all..

OpenToRead( "home_area_save.txt" )

this should be:

OpenToRead( 1, "home_area_save.txt" )

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Posted: 18th Aug 2018 14:08 Edited at: 18th Aug 2018 19:11

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Golelorn

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Posted: 18th Aug 2018 16:26 Edited at: 18th Aug 2018 19:10

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Golelorn

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Posted: 18th Aug 2018 17:34 Edited at: 18th Aug 2018 19:12

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How to read every line:
I suppose you could also add a counter to read a certain amount of lines.

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		while FileEOF( 1 ) = 0
			objdata$ = ReadLine( 1 )
			token_count = CountStringTokens( objdata$, ":" )
			temp_obj_house_c.desc = GetStringToken( objdata$, ":", 1 )
			temp_obj_house_c.level = Val(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":", 2 ))
			x# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":", 3 ))
			y# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":", 4 ))
			z# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":", 5 ))
			rotx# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":", 6 ))
			roty# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":", 7 ))
			rotz# = ValFloat(GetStringToken( objdata$, ":", 8 ))
etc...
		endwhile
	CloseFile( 1 )

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Posted: 29th Aug 2018 13:48

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Well, readline does exactly what the word says, it reads A line. You have 6 lines, therefore, you have to read the line 6 different times. If it read all of them at the same time, I suppose the command would be readLines instead, but that would be horrible inefficient and eat a lot memory on large files.

Quote: "This is not readily apparent to newbs. "

Well it does say in the help file "Reads a new line terminated string from the given file". But I'd agree with you, if you're not familiar with how sequential file reading works you might not understand there's an internal index pointer that moves along the opened file with each read command called on it.

Alternatively, you can think of a memblock as a sort of random-access file, in which you must specifically state the byte position you start reading from and how many bytes to read.

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Posted: 29th Aug 2018 17:56 Edited at: 30th Aug 2018 01:44

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The missing part is the help files does not let the user know there is an "internal index pointer". Its not readily apparent that you can just use a loop - simple if you know it, but frustrating if you do not. I had no idea it would increment.

I knew it would read one line. The problem was I had no idea I could use a loop, to get to the next lines.

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