If ur using VB,

go for the

Open FileName As String for #1 (or whatever, i cant remember)
Print #1, "yadda yadda"
Close #1

End Goddamn Sub.... wutever

Its pretty simple.

Yet if u arent using VB, go search for the answer

A code example.
I''m 17 years old and completely telf-taught (or something, forgive my English) so this may be a perfect example of bad code but I feel it is useful.
This example is in c or c++ whatever(i hardly know the difference)

define a struct for the save data (player for instance):

struct PLAYERSAVEDATA{    int playerx;    int playery;    int hitpoints;    int damage;    // do whatever you like. just remember to load and save files with the SAME struct or it will be messy}; 

maybe, you would even like to save monsters

struct MONSTER{    int monsterx;    int monstery;    int monstertype;    int monsterhp;    // fill in whatever you need}; 

now include stdio.h in your cpp file:
#include <stdio.h>

i assume you know how to use a struct... so fill the struct with the data you need to save and create a method to save tour file

void savegame{char *filename){    PLAYERSAVEDATA player;    MONSTER monster; // remember its case sensitive    // now go on and fill the structs    FILE *savefile = fopen(filename,"wb+";    fwrite(&player, sizeof(player), 1, savefile);    // fwrite (address of junk you want to save, size of junk you want to save, number of pieces of junk you want to save, file)        int num_monsters = 3; // suppose u want to save 3 monsters    fwrite(&num_monsters, sizeof(num_monsters), 1, savefile); //lets save how many monsters there are or you wont be able to load them... you dont know how many there are (duh)    for (int loop=0; loop<num_monsters;loop++)    {        // first fill up "monster" wit info on monster #num_monsters        fwrite(&monster, sizeof(monster), 1, savefile); // no dont write "three pieces of junk", that''s not how you use it... you''ll figure it out once tou learn about arrays and pointers    }    // now you''re done saving and only need to close the file    fclose(savefile);} 

now this could be a way... personally i''d rather have a monster class and a member function like vSaveToFile(File *a_pFile) and have every monster save itself but that''s probably a little over your head...

of course you need to load them back in your game

remember you have to load everything in the same order you saved it

void loadgame(char *filename){    PLAYERSAVEDATA player;    MONSTER monster;    int num_monsters = 0;    FILE savefile = fopen(filename,"rb";    if (!savefile) return; // if the file isn''t there you probably dont want to continue... bad things will happen (some assertions in debug mode maybe)    fread(&player, sizeof(player), 1, savefile);    // do whatever you like with the player; its now loaded   fread(&num_monsters, sizeof(num_monsters), 1, savefile);   // the number of monsters in the file is now num_monsters.. remember this can be something else than 3 if you changed the 3 in the save method and saved a file... depends on the file you''re loading.   for (int loop = 0; loop < num_monsters; loop++)   {       fread(&monster, sizeof(monster), 1, savefile);       // monster is now filled with info on monster #loop; process it and continue   }    // close the file    fclose(savedata);} 

Now hopefully you can use this... its very bad code as it uses global data (where''d you guess the monster data goes?? I left that open to you) and that appears to be a bad habit.

So its probably the worst unflexible code you professionals have ever seen but it works... When i was new i would have killed for this, believe me

if you have any questions about this I''ll be happy to clarify things.

Kurioes@wanadoo.nl

p.s. I of course take no responsibility for this code whatsoever; It probably contains a few typos as i haven''t tested it...

Ye i know, but i assume a newbie programmer doesn''t use them. I think. I didn''t...

(i should reaaly get me a username)