string monstername;
int monsterhealth;
int monsterstr;
int monsterexp;
int monstergold;
ifstream fin("monsters.txt");
fin >> monstername >> monsterhealth >> monsterstr >> monsterexp >> monstergold;
Monster mons(monstername,monsterhealth,monsterstr,monsterexp,monstergold);
getting certain data from a text file
Author
Hi guys, currently making a rpg type game and most of its working but i need a way of getting random monster names and values of that monster into the constructor so its a bit more random. Im trying to use the fstream from a txt file like so:
all works well with one line of the text which is formated like so:
Goblin 20 2 100 100
now lets say i wanted to use a random number to pick a random line out of the text file. i prefix my monsters in my text file so i can search for something like so:
1.Goblin 20 2 100 100
2.bunny 20 4 100 100
3.foo 20 20 100 100
would there be a way to search for "2." then start reading from the file?
cheers lone.
There are various (more or less efficient) ways of doing this directly from a file. But in this case it's probably a better idea to parse the file on startup and save the lines into a list of monster structures instead.
Author
umm.. by monster structures do you mean an array of monster instances? :| what exactly is a structure and how do i declare one?
any help appreciated
lone
any help appreciated
lone
Quote:Original post by Lonefox1Yes, a list of monster instances. But in this case it'd probably be less confusing to refer to them as monster templates or types instead.
umm.. by monster structures do you mean an array of monster instances? :| what exactly is a structure and how do i declare one?
A structure is basically just a collection of variables.
struct monster { const char *name; int health; int strength; int experience; int gold;};Here's an example using a static array:
const monster monsterTypes[] = { { "first", 100, 50, 10, 250 }, { "second", 200, 100, 20, 500 }};enum { monsterCount = sizeof(monsterTypes) / sizeof(monsterTypes[0])};const monster *randomMonster() { return &monsterTypes[rand() % monsterCount];}
Author
a few questions, where would i declare a struct? i do have a monster class which has functions in it aswell. would i declare it in main, or would i change my monster class to a monster struct? also what would happen to its functions? would it store them in each instance too?
any help appreciated im rather confused with this one!
lone
any help appreciated im rather confused with this one!
lone
Your monster class, when written to a file, will just contain the fields, none of the functions, so it should behave just like a struct.
In C++, a struct is the same as a class, just with default public visibility. In fact, structs can have member functions as well as variables. It's just that most people use classes because it makes things look nicer, and struct looks more C-like.
You would declare structs and classes in a header file.
You would declare structs and classes in a header file.
Author
argh!! this is driving me nuts ive been trying to impliment this for the past 3 hours and i havnt a clue how to do it, can someone give me some hints or sumthing? i need to read the values into a structure from a text file containing a name and a few integers for each line as mentioned above. or any other suggestions how to obtain a similar sort of thing would be great too!
any help really appreciated!!!
lone
any help really appreciated!!!
lone
You don't need to use a structure if you don't want to (especially if you've never worked with them).
Here's one trivial way you could do it:
//inside the text file:
#FILE1 Monster 20 34 20
#FILE2 Bunny 23 32 43
#FILE3 Goblin 32 43 54
//
What you do is make a function that'll read in a character at a time from the file and once it encounters '#', the function then reads in 'F''I''L''E' (as a string or character by character) and saves it into a buffer/array etc., Then you call a function to compare ( strcmp() ) "#FILE1" with the string you just took in and if they're both the same, then you offset however many bytes (characters) there is following " Monster " , in this case, it'll be 9 (7 for monster and 2 for the space before and after the name monster. You then you read in the value 20, 34, 20 etc... If the two strings being compared are'nt the same, then you just continue reading in the next character following "#FILE1". This way, you don't have to read in the whole file into your program [wink]
I hope you get what I'm trying to say. I did it this way once when I build my first databes entry program a long time ago and it worked very good.
Here's one trivial way you could do it:
//inside the text file:
#FILE1 Monster 20 34 20
#FILE2 Bunny 23 32 43
#FILE3 Goblin 32 43 54
//
What you do is make a function that'll read in a character at a time from the file and once it encounters '#', the function then reads in 'F''I''L''E' (as a string or character by character) and saves it into a buffer/array etc., Then you call a function to compare ( strcmp() ) "#FILE1" with the string you just took in and if they're both the same, then you offset however many bytes (characters) there is following " Monster " , in this case, it'll be 9 (7 for monster and 2 for the space before and after the name monster. You then you read in the value 20, 34, 20 etc... If the two strings being compared are'nt the same, then you just continue reading in the next character following "#FILE1". This way, you don't have to read in the whole file into your program [wink]
I hope you get what I'm trying to say. I did it this way once when I build my first databes entry program a long time ago and it worked very good.
Author
i had a brain wave :P finally got it working after much frustration.. or atleast the reading it in part. just wanted to run it past you guys to see if im missing any huge mistakes which will bite me on the bum in the future
one thing i havnt figured out yet is how to change the array size depending on how many entrys are in the txt file, any suggestions for this would be great
cheers
lone
//monster header file for struct//monster.h header file#ifndef MONSTER_H#define MONSTER_H#include <fstream>#include <vector>#include <iostream>#include <string>struct monster { char name[20]; int health; int strength; int experience; int gold; }monsters[10];#endif//using it#include <iostream>#include <string>#include <vector>#include <fstream>#include "monster.h"using namespace std;int main(){//Creates a load of monsters----------------- monster monsterTypes; //new monster structifstream getit("iotest.txt"); //new ifstreamif (getit.bad()) //this doesnt work?{ cerr << "couldnt find file\n"; }for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) //for get first 6 in files{ getit >> monsters.name; getit >> monsters.health; getit >> monsters.strength; getit >> monsters.experience; getit >> monsters.gold;}for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) //output to screen { cout << monsters.name << "\n"; cout << monsters.health << "\n"; cout << monsters.strength << "\n"; cout << monsters.experience << "\n"; cout << monsters.gold << "\n";} //---------------------------------------------return 0;}one thing i havnt figured out yet is how to change the array size depending on how many entrys are in the txt file, any suggestions for this would be great
cheers
lone
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