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Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« on: January 21, 2013, 07:36:26 pm »
I am currently working on a port of battlestar(from bsd-games package) to the nspire. To get comfortable with programming, I am learning how to do the basics. I have mastered basic input and output, but I am clueless as how to read a file, say "file.tns". It is all text.

Right now my code is something like this: (not exactly, but all the code pertaining to the file reading)

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FILE *test;

test = fopen("file.tns", "rt");
char line[80];
while(fgets(line, 80, test) != NULL) {
   displn(line,1); //Display string with newline
}
fclose(test);

I have "file.tns" in the same directory as my program on the nspire.

The nspire displays gibberish.
Any suggestions? I am using the latest version of ndless.
« Last Edit: January 21, 2013, 09:34:15 pm by battlestar »

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Re: Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2013, 09:26:07 pm »
Hi
Sadly you have to indicate the full path (if someone has the solution im interested :p).

So "/documents/file.tns" is the root.
You can get the program path using argv[0]
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Re: Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2013, 09:34:10 pm »
So I could use:
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FILE *test;

test = fopen("/documents/devel/file.tns", "rt");
char line[80];
while(fgets(line, 80, test) != NULL) {
   displn(line,1); //Display string with newline
}
fclose(test);

And it would work?

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Re: Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2013, 09:59:25 pm »
It still displays nothing.

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Re: Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2013, 10:00:24 pm »
Not sure what is "rt" but yeah, should work if the devel directory exits.
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Re: Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2013, 10:00:51 pm »
One thing I tried doing to learn how to use it was to look through all the files of other programs, since they had all the source released with them.
I remember torigolo released nrgblib with a tile game that looked through files on the calc, so that might be a good example
Then again I never was able to make any programs more than text based and combo box based stories with the text in one file, so my advice might not be good
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Re: Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2013, 10:02:59 pm »
You might want to go visit nTxt (which is a text editor) and look at the source.
http://ourl.ca/17190
« Last Edit: January 21, 2013, 10:03:58 pm by epic7 »

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Re: Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2013, 10:06:00 pm »
I've looked at the sources, but they are confusing.  ???

However, I just figured it out. I used "rt", when I should have been using just "r".
Thank you for your help.

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Re: Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2013, 10:06:52 pm »
I don't understand the source at all either :P
At least the solution was a pretty simple one :)

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Re: Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2013, 02:57:05 pm »
I've looked at the sources, but they are confusing.  ???
I don't understand the source at all either :P
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Lol, I wonder if my coding style is so bad that no one understands it :P

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Re: Ndless v3.1 Read text file
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2013, 05:27:41 pm »
Well, I have only recently learned c. I admire the structure of your code, I just didn't understand the file reading part.