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Saving values...
okay, Ill explain as best I can what I am doing. I am making a text game engine with an editor. I have been coded for several hours now, and have come at a fork in the road. I know one way to save to a file via <fstream> is there a more easily used way. Since it has an editor I am going to have to be able to easily add data to these files. Yet the idea I am using now looks likes this...
Character Save File--
Code:
0000 0000 000 000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000 00000 1 NAME
0000 0000 000 000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000 00000 1 NAME
0000 0000 000 000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000 00000 1 NAME
and so on and so forth up to 99
Code for reading
Code:
for ( int x = 1; x != c; ++x ) {
b_file >> preset.HPC[x] >> preset.HPB[x] >> preset.MPC[x] >> preset.MPB[x] >> preset.STC[x] >>
preset.STB[x] >> preset.SPC[x] >> preset.SPB[x] >> preset.DFC[x] >> preset.DFB[x] >>preset.EXP[x] >>
preset.MON[x] >> preset.IID[x]>>preset.names[x];
}
This WORKS fine, but I cant seem to edit individual values in the save file. Modifying them is easy it is just saving them back to the file I cant figure out. So I figure I need to use a different approac. Thank you SO much for any help.
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If your data is of a fixed format (fixed length) then it should be easy to open the file in read/write mode and seek to the appropriate value and modify it. If not, then you might do better to just read the whole file into memory (an STL container of some sort perhaps) and then modify the data and write it all back out to the file when you're done.
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Text files are not really suitable for "in situ" modification, unless as hk_mp5kpdw notes, the records are fixed format.
Rewriting the whole file is no biggie, and it works all the time without you having to expend a great deal of effort on it.
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rewriting the whole file seem very inappropriate for just wanting to modify 1 value or maybe a line of data. is there a way to by chance add like a ID code to the beginning of a line and then search for the value then use something like getline to input the line into a string then modify string then replace the same line with the string? If not any ideas on a good way to code rewriting the entire file. I know how to but most of my code is very sloppy and slow. Just ideas would be good if not thanks for the help.
EDIT: Umm, would I be better off using a GUI or API for this? Considering I am trying to make an editor I will need to be able to create variables/arrays during run-time.
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make a map<string, vector<int>> perhaps?
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Raigne, I was having the same problem once, and wanted to make something which would just edit one specific part of my save file, but I decided against it (got bored looking), and just rewrote the whole file every time. Considering the files weren't too big, this didn't matter, so it worked out ok, and it worked out to be quite fast, so that was another relief.
There were a few places where I had to rewrite it in my save file, so I made a function for both saving it and loading it. With all the error checking and whatnot required for FileIO, this helped a lot.
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ok how would I go about rewriting a 100 line file that has 8 values and one string on each line? I am quite good at reading files I just seem to have trouble writing stuff back out the right way. dont get me wrong I know the syntax, just it seems like my writing methods are a little whack. I also have a bad tendency to use for loops with almost all my file I/O
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Ok, you know your reading thing:
Code:
b_file >> preset.HPC[x] >> preset.HPB[x] >> preset.MPC[x] >> preset.MPB[x] >> preset.STC[x] >>
preset.STB[x] >> preset.SPC[x] >> preset.SPB[x] >> preset.DFC[x] >> preset.DFB[x] >>preset.EXP[x] >>
preset.MON[x] >> preset.IID[x]>>preset.names[x];
perhaps create a c_file (or whatever you want, I generally call them in and out), of an ofstream type, and pretty much do exactly the same. If I had a file with a [Name] [Age] and [Gender], I would do it like so:
Code:
ofstream out ( "MyFile.txt" );
if ( out )
{
// Name, Age and Gender variables previously defined etc
out<< Name << " " << Age << " " << Gender << '\n';
}
else
{
cout<< "Error in FileIO!";
}
or something to that effect.
EDIT: I didn't really answer the question did I? Well, that's a general way of writing data to a file. It's the exact same as reading, except the >> turn to << and the whitespace thing needs to be taken into account. Right, once you read in all the file info into variables (I'd say save them to an array), you can put the bit in the if () part into a loop like so:
Code:
for ( int i=0; i<NumThingsToBeSaved; i++ ) // You specify the variable NumThingsToBeSaved
{
out<< Name[i] << " " << Age[i] << " " << Gender[i] << '\n';
}
Just change the Name, age and whatnot to your variables.
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yea that is basicly the same thing as what I did, just a little sloppier. Anyways thanks alot everyone
