displaying names from text actor

[mt]

is there a way to display more than one names from a file using a single text actor??

[Game A Gogo]

it depends on what way you use to display the names, and what do you want exactly?

[mt]

there r 11 names in a file. can they be displayed by a single text actor using read from file functions?

[Game A Gogo]

sure, but, how is the test in the file sorted ,like? and how you want them to be displayed?

[mt]

the names in text are wriiten like:

RickyPonting
Adam Gilchrist
blah blah

and we want to display the names exactly like that in a single text actor.

[DilloDude]

Either go through the file with fgetc and get each individual character and add it to a string, or use fgets to get each line, add it to a temp string and add a newline character before adding the next line.
http://game-editor.com/docs/script_reference.htm#fgetc

[mt]

oh ok im reading from the file and i put all the names in an astructure like this
struct s{
char name[20];
}readname[11];

now all the 11 names from the file r in the readname[i].name
i can display 1 name by readname[0].name or readname[4].name by a text actor. but i want all the 11 names i put in this struct to show in a single text actor. is there any way to do that?

[DilloDude]

Try something like this:

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sprintf(text, "%s\n%s\n%s\n%s", readname[0].name, readname[1].name, readname[2].name, readname[3].name);


Add more as required. The %s inserts a string variable (specified by the latter variable(s)), the \n is a newline character. You could also use lots of strcat() functions, but with sprintf, you only need to have one line.