Re: [hlcoders] file reading from...

[Varlock]

[CODE]   #include <stdio.h>        // not sure which one or both of these two includes you need #include <stdlib.h>   FILE *pFile = NULL;   void MyFunction( void ) {     pFile = fopen( "filename.txt", "r" );        // "r" means read-mode       if( !pFile )         // error       char line[1024];       fgets( line, 1024, pFile );       fclose( pFile ); }   [/CODE]       This code will open "filename.txt" in read-mode. You should do something if it doesn't load properly (where there's the // error comment). Then it reads the FIRST 1024 CHARACTERS or UNTIL A NEWLINE IS REACHED. The fgets function automatically reads up to the number of characters you pass it (in this case 1024) or until a newline character is reached. Now you can use line as you wish. Finally, the code closes the file.   - Varlock ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Long To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 7:39 PM Subject: [hlcoders] file reading from... gEngfuncs.COM_ParseFile takes tokens from the file and with it i can keep grabbing tokens but each token is delimited by white space.   char* pFile = gEngfuncs.COM_LoadFile("commandmenu.txt", 5, NULL);   pFile points to commandmenus contents so i have a pointer to whats in the commandmenu.txt but thats all of it :/.   What i was after was if there is a way to grab from a file one line at a time until it hits the newline character '\n'.   i have done it so far with grabbing chunks one at a time checking each character to see if its a new line then setting back the location read... it works but i don't like the way i have done it :(.   All i was after is if there is a better way to read one line at a time till the end line char is reached..... or do i have to start including fstream.h to start doing this type of stuff?   also another thing is i was after what each of the variables COM_LoadFile takes is?   ("commandmenu.txt", 5, NULL); i realise the first string is the file to draw it from dunno what the 5 is??? someone enlighten me and from looking i am guess where NULL is you can send a length variable to have returned the length of the file or something?? but i am not sure only NULL seems to be used everywhere.   thanks to anyone that can help.