Creating a .txt file

[FERdeBOER]

I always doubt about where to make my questions...

This time is this: Can I make my game to create a .txt file? (of course with the things I want to be writen on it).
Where that .txt file would be created? Could the player select the destination folder?

Thank you very much for your time.

[Fuzzy]

This time is this: Can I make my game to create a .txt file? (of course with the things I want to be writen on it).

Yes.

Where that .txt file would be created?

In the game folder.

Could the player select the destination folder?

No. At least not in the way you are imagining.

Thank you very much for your time.

Welcome.

[FERdeBOER]

This time is this: Can I make my game to create a .txt file? (of course with the things I want to be writen on it).

Yes.

Oh,

Could you please be more specific about how can I do it?

Thank you again for your help and your fast answer.

[Bee-Ant]

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FILE *f=fopen("yourfile.txt","w");
fprintf(f,"Hello world");
fclose(f);

[FERdeBOER]

Thank You very very much!

It works perfectly!!

Should I put "solved" on the topic subject or something?

[Bee-Ant]

You're welcome
If you keep it maybe someone will give more reply with more code variation

[FERdeBOER]

Now you mention it... any tip about how to insert multilines text? I need to copy and paste from another text file which is already in multiline.
I've found 3 solutions: adding " at the start and end on each line, or \ at the end of a line...
there's also the possibility of making a unique line with \n on each line end... but is all three are a LOT of job, so if it's a way of just paste the text as it is...

Thank you again, and again...

[FERdeBOER]

I have a problem inserting my multiline code.

I'll try to make a short brief about what I want:
I'm trying to make random missions to a game called Dangerous Waters (DW to abreviate), a naval warfare simulation. It's a great game but lacks of a dynamic campaign and a good random mission generator.
I has, however, a very good mission editor and the missions are in simple text, so it can be read by notepad.
So what I'm trying to do is making a good random mission generator by creating a bunch of different situations in the DW editor, then copying all of them to my game-editor program and it will give out a mission generated choosing between the ones I selected and randomizing the weather conditions. (That's why I asked for creating a .txt file and, even better, game-editor can create directly a .mu file, the mission ones on DW).

My first problem is, as I said above, the multiline. Porting a very simple mission to game-editor is already long... porting a bit more complex mission will be terrible
So, please, any tip about how to do this would be very apreciated.

My second problem is when trying to randomize weather.
This is my code (well, is more Bee-Ant's):

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FILE *f=fopen("00base.mu","w");
fprintf(f,"VERSION 3"
"OWNALLIANCE 0"
"DIFFICULTY 1"
"TOTALNUMSIDES 1"
"NUMDRIVEABLES 1"
"MONTH 1"
"WORLDGRID 2"
"LATLONG 54.071823 -11.025635"
";"
"SEASTATE %i\n",seastate
"MDR 0 0 0"
"BOTTOMTYPE %i\n",bottomtype
"TIMEOFDAY %i\n",timeofday
"WEATHER %i\n",weather
"CLOUDHEIGHT %i\n",clouds
"SSP %i\n",ssp
""
""
"ENTITY 2342 SUBENTITY"
"HULLID 1"
"ALLIANCE 1"
"POS 305928.125000 597045.187500 -70"
"POINTS 750"
"COURSE 0"
"SPEED 5"
"PROB 100"
"DRIVEABLE 1"
"UNIQUENAME "SSN""
"COMMSINTERVAL 0.000000"
"TACTIC RANDOMBOX"
"BOX 266453.875000 638493.187500 345402.343750 555597.250000"
"AIRLOADOUT 244"
"AIRCRAFT 1722 1 Alert5 0 : Alert15 1 : 0 Alert30 0 : "
"END");
fclose(f);

This is a mission with just one submarine (the player). No other objects, no missions... figure out how hard would be to add quotes to all lines on a normal mission...

My problem is that, when I press ok I got this error: "Error line 13: expected )"
line 13 is the bottomtype one.

the seastate, bottomtype, weather... variables are been defined before and are like:

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seastate=rand(5);
bottomtype=rand(3);

and so on...


I switched some lines and the problem is after the first random event so in not line 13 the problem, but where the second random event is).

What can it be?

I hope to have been clear enough, I'm not English.
Thank you very much.

EDIT:
If I change the quotes for \

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FILE *f=fopen("00base.mu","w");
fprintf(f,"VERSION 3" \
OWNALLIANCE 0\
DIFFICULTY 1\
TOTALNUMSIDES 1\
NUMDRIVEABLES 1\
MONTH 1\
WORLDGRID 2\
LATLONG 54.071823 -11.025635\
;"\
SEASTATE %i\n,seastate \
MDR 0 0 0\
BOTTOMTYPE %i\n,bottomtype \
TIMEOFDAY %i\n,timeofday \
WEATHER %i\n,weather \
CLOUDHEIGHT %i\n,clouds \
SSP %i\n,ssp \
\
\
ENTITY 2342 SUBENTITY \
HULLID 1 \
ALLIANCE 1 \
POS 305928.125000 597045.187500 -70 \
POINTS 750 \
COURSE 0 \
SPEED 5\
PROB 100\
DRIVEABLE 1\
UNIQUENAME "SSN" \
COMMSINTERVAL 0.000000\
TACTIC RANDOMBOX\
BOX 266453.875000 638493.187500 345402.343750 555597.250000\
AIRLOADOUT 244\
AIRCRAFT 1722 1 Alert5 0 : Alert15 1 : 0 Alert30 0 : \
END");
fclose(f);

I gives me no more the first error, but

Error line 35: Expected )
Error line 35: Expected ;

But line 35 already has );

Also, the line

UNIQUENAME "SSN"

, has this format on the mission files, each platform has its name and comes quoted, can this be a problem?
I'm pretty lost, as you can see..

[Game A Gogo]

to have multiline strings, simply use the escape sequence \n

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fprintf(f,"Hello,\n\tworld!");

here \t is the escape sequence for a tab space
So it'd appear as:

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Hello,
    world!

[FERdeBOER]

to have multiline strings, simply use the escape sequence \n

I've already tried this, is as long to do as quoting or putting \ ... and less clear... however, I've just tried it, without "my" random options and it works, but if I put the first random variable (seastate), the final text file ends at that point, not writing what follows...

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FILE *f=fopen("00base.mu","w");
fprintf(f,"VERSION 3\nOWNALLIANCE 0\nDIFFICULTY 1\nTOTALNUMSIDES 1\nNUMDRIVEABLES 1\nMONTH 1\nWORLDGRID 2\nLATLONG 54.071823 -11.025635\n;\nSEASTATE %i\n",seastate,"\nMDR 0 0 0\nBOTTOMTYPE 1\nTIMEOFDAY 21\nWEATHER 0\nCLOUDHEIGHT 30\nSSP 2\n\n\nENTITY 2342 SUBENTITY\nHULLID 1\nALLIANCE 1\nPOS 554859.937500 559978.937500 -70\nPOINTS 750\nCOURSE 0\nSPEED 5\nPROB 100\nDRIVEABLE 1\nUNIQUENAME ""SSN"" \nCOMMSINTERVAL 0.000000\nTACTIC RANDOMBOX\nBOX 515385.812500 601426.937500 594334.187500 518531.031250\nAIRLOADOUT 244\nAIRCRAFT 1722 1 Alert5 0 : Alert15 1 : 0 Alert30 0 : \nEND\n");
fclose(f);

How can I make the program to resume writing the text?
I know is a very silly question, but I can't find a solution (it's one hour I'm searching on internet).

Thanks again for your patience.

EDIT:
I forgot to say that the text file writes correctly the random seastate, it stops just after it.
to make it more clear, I paste the point where I think it's the problem:

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\nSEASTATE %i\n",seastate,"\nMDR 0 0 0\n

[Hblade]

Its over 256 characters, which could be the reason probably

[FERdeBOER]

Its over 256 characters, which could be the reason probably

You talk about the text? But if I don't put the random variables the entire text is written...

[Hblade]

Strange... Usually it will give you an error if you use any print or sprint command, and have over the max limit character of 256.

[FERdeBOER]

Strange... Usually it will give you an error if you use any print or sprint command, and have over the max limit character of 256.

Well, I had no problem at all... maybe because is an external text, not displayed in the game?

However, how can I connect the lines after the seastate value? I've just made test with a short line and allways stops writing after the variable and I would need to continue writing.

[Hblade]

thats a good question, sorry but I'm not too good with FILE * stuff