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Writing your own "language"

TetsuoAkira22 · 2003-08-07T17:20:35

Lately, I''ve been coming up with some good ideas for AI - and one of those, requires me writing my own language... But I do not know a THING about file input/output and creating your own language (I.E.: an if statement in C++ is "if (statement)" - In my language, I''d like it to be "if statement" - notice, no ()''s). Basically - I need to learn how to import files, and search for certain keywords, do certain things once they are found, etc. - then do exactly what it says to do what it says. I.E. Lets say I have a test.ta2 file, that contains the following. --- IF user SAYS "hello" { SAY "Hello!" } --- I would need to read this file, and change "IF user SAYS "hello"" into "shello = "hello" If (shello == true) { printf("Hello!"); }" or something similiar. Can anyone help me in either fields? A tutorial, example, or anything of the like would be very useful. ----- Also: What about file encryption, reading encrypted files, etc.. (Like .pak files) - and reading certain folder groups (I.E. - all words the AI learns, go into a folder named "Words" - then from that they go into seperate folders "Verb", "adj", "noun", etc.) - from an encrypted file/ or just folder groups period.

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Started by TetsuoAkira22 August 07, 2003 06:54 AM

14 comments, last by TetsuoAkira22 20 years, 8 months ago

TetsuoAkira22

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August 07, 2003 09:30 AM

Thanks, but I''m actually not creating a language for general use - just a simple scripting language for my AI to read... Thats all

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August 07, 2003 10:09 AM

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IvanTheTerrible

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August 07, 2003 10:10 AM

If your''re really interested in writing your own scripting langauge, then check out the Peroxide Website. A note of warning though, making your own compiler/interpreter etc. takes a lot of time and effort, my own took me about 4 months to get it up to something decent. You might also be interested in looking at the Unreal scripting language reference here.

HTH

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August 07, 2003 10:26 AM

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August 07, 2003 10:35 AM

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August 07, 2003 05:20 PM

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