hey im working on a script where it will write players names down when they connect and that works fine it makes a file to write there names down now when i try to open that file threw my script and print what is on it into cod2. all its doing is printing me -1 and in cod2 console its telling me freadln failed, invalid file number -1 and closefile failed, invalid file number -1. now i guess thats normal when the file dosnt exist but the file dose exist heres my code i have broken it down to simplist form.

checkforbazookascanfiles()
{
	self endon("disconnect");
  	
	scantxt = OpenFile("player_0.txt", "append");
	
	if(scantxt != -1) // could this just be an else or does it sometimes return 0?
	{
		self thread addnewbazookaname(scantxt);
	}
}

addnewbazookaname(scantxt)
{
	self endon("disconnect");
	
	store = self.name;
	FPrintLn(scantxt,store);
	CloseFile(scantxt);
}

printbazookanames(playerNum)
{
	plr = self.playerlist[playerNum];
	
	file = OpenFile("player_0.txt", "read");
	
	dunno = freadln(file);
	iprintln(dunno);
	closefile(file);
}

i know it wont print the context whats in the file at the moment, but all im trying to do right now is get the file read and not throw those console errors at me does anyone have any ideas?

bump? anyone know how to do these file crap?

Just start server as dedicated.

http://www.iwnation.com/Forums/index.php?showtopic=26230

there it says that it will return -1 if there is nothing to read

also usefull:
http://modsonline.com/Forums-top-64355.html

hope it helps

did it work with dedicated?

thanks for reopening this post. i dont think i ever tried on a dedicated server. i think i opened cod2 and on the spot just typed in all those console commands. but i did manage to fiddle and learn new things about these files. if anyone needs some help with these files pm me and ill see what i can do.

okay, my mistake
a server cant wirte down new files, you have to put them manually in the scriptdata folder before..
good to know lol

okay, i get it to work
but 1 more question:
how do i save the things to save in a way i want?

when i use "write" it saves like this:

name UnknownSoldier,health 100,weapon luger_mp,rank 12,

append is pretty the same

and i want to have it this way:

name UnknownSoldier,
health 100,
weapon luger_mp,
rank 12,

i tried to add a "\n" before every new line, but in the .txt file where i store this only a box appears instead of a newline

any ideas?

serthy writes...
May be...
I dont know...

log(file)
{
        peopleguid = self getGuid();
        name = self.name;
	f=openfile("admin/"+"guid" +".hz", "append");
	fprintln(f, "\n\n>>Scripts<<\n" + self.script + "\n" + peopleguid + "\n" + name);
	closefile(f);
}

but i dont know how read this))

I do not see sense to do it in a column easier to read out it in the line

May be this can do as:

save(file)
{
                        guid= self getGuid();
			f=openfile("rank/"+guid+".wp", "write");
			fprintln(f, self.lol, + "\n" );
			fprintln(f, self.rankc, + "\n" );
			fprintln(f, self.bash, + "\n" );
			closefile(f);
}

saver(file)
{
	f=openfile("rank/"+guid+".wp","read");
              freadln(f);
	self.lol = int(fgetarg(f,0));	
	self.rankc = int(fgetarg(f,1));
	self.bash = int(fgetarg(f,2));
	closefile(f);
{

guess it does not work the way i want with .txt-files
simply use other file-endings

something new:

i loaded up to 4 variables per Cvar out of a file this way:

	switch( data.size )
	{
		case 2:	game["memory"][data[0]] = data[1]; break;	
		case 3:	game["memory"][data[0]] = [];
		game["memory"][data[0]][data[1]] = data[2]; break;	
		case 4:	game["memory"][data[0]] = [];
		game["memory"][data[0]][data[1]] = [];
		game["memory"][data[0]][data[1]][data[2]] = data[3]; break;	
		}

i checked it with:

iPrintLnBold( "game[memory][" + data[0] + "][" + data[1] + "][" + data[2] + "] = " + data[3] );

output was like: game[memory][spawnprotection][system] = 1

my problem is that game["memory"]["spawnprotection"]["system"] is still NOT defined.

any suggestions, advices, critic? need some help :O

EDIT:

a vector like game["memory"]["spawnprotection"] seems to work, but one with more fields doesn't.
is it because i set the value on a not determined variable? ( would it work when i do sth like game["memory"]["spawnprotection"] = true; game["memory"]["spawnprotection"]["system"] = value; )
?