Using .txt file contents as sourcecode

[Arcand]

ok so... Its been so long since I tried to do this that I cant seem to remember how, and I know its probably not that difficult although if someone could tell me how to get a compiler to get data from a .txt file and implement it in to the source code that would be great. I remember doing this months ago and as far as I can remember the filetype can be .txt but... meh...

thanks a bunch! I know im asking for a good bit of tutorage but it will help me with my little project tremendously !

P.S. this is part of a homework assignment where im only suppose to use c code... although I am allowed to ask for help on forums like these but still... blah.

[Salem]

What's in the text file?

A bunch of comma separated numbers like
1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6


You could do this

int myArray [] = {
#include "numbers.txt"
};

[Arcand]

within the text file is a handful of code regarding the use of the console input line as a "command line" in a quite simple text based adventure game. I dont have the code available cause I havn't written it yet, only the pseudo code, and half the point is to figure out stuff like this ( some regarding file i/o) but this problem I cant seem to find newhere...

[fnprintf]

If the text file is or will be actual 'c' code, use

#include "yourfile.txt"

whereever you need the code. Example:

/* text file, file.txt */
printf ("This is a \"text\" file that contains code.\n");
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 26; i++)
{
    printf ("%c", i + 65);
}
printf ("\n");

/* main file, test.c */
#include <stdio.h>

int main ()
{
    #include "file.txt"
    return 0;
}

[Arcand]

if I were to do it that way, how would I move the cursor to a different location? an example would be if I was to put four different sections of code in one file, how would I, using the #include directive, tell the program to only use the second section of code?

[oogabooga]

Nobody here knows what you're talking about because you haven't shown us what's in these secret txt files of yours. POST SOME CODE.

[King Mir]

if I were to do it that way, how would I move the cursor to a different location? an example would be if I was to put four different sections of code in one file, how would I, using the #include directive, tell the program to only use the second section of code?

It's possible to make a file generate different code for different files it's included in with macros, but to do that you need to be able to modify both the included file, and the file doing the including.

[AndiPersti]

if I were to do it that way, how would I move the cursor to a different location? an example would be if I was to put four different sections of code in one file, how would I, using the #include directive, tell the program to only use the second section of code?

Preprocessor conditionals will work but I'm also interested in why you want to do that. Why can't you put the different sections in different files? Are you not in control of the contents of the file? Then I think including it in your code is a very bad idea.

Bye, Andreas

[cyberfish]

Is there a good reason why you aren't doing it the way everyone else does it - putting functions in the other file and calling them? That's the way C is designed to be used.