Thread: Inputing Character Data

I have an RPG game and I want to be able to load a character's stats and map position into the game from a text file.

Paladin

HP: 4500
MP: 800

Strength: 200
Vitality: 300
Agility: 100
Magic: 80

Defense = 600
Damage = 400

Magic Damage: 160

Stat Points: 5

Location: 5, 5

Any help is appreciated.

I've done something similar recently.
This is how I did it...

1. Read each line as a string into a vector.

This is easy. This can be done using getline(cin,string), then vector.push_back().

2. Read the first word of each line.

This isn't difficult either. Just check if the first word is something you recognise.

Code:

stringstream ss( line );  // include <sstream>
string firstWord ;
if ( (ss >> firstWord) ) {
  // see if word is something you recognise
}
else {
  // there are no words on this line; ignore
}

3. If the first word is something you recognise, read the rest of the line into values.

Code:

if ( firstWord == "HP" ) {
  int hp ;
  if ( ss >> hp ) {
    // we got the health points
  }
  else {
    // error
  }

My suggestion is not to use =, : or any other characters to delimit strings. Just use spaces.

Code:

HP  400
MP 300
Stat Points 5
Location 2 2

Hope that helps.