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does anyone know how to read from a file on gE?

for example:
read(file.txt); //read it line by line
var1 = line1;
var2 = line2;

you read the data from a file then set it to any variable you have after reading it.
any help would be great. trying to figure it out myself as well. thank you.

You need to use a FILE*. All it is is a pointer to a file, which allows you to use the file io functions.

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FILE* file = fopen("filename", "r");
// this creates a FILE* variable called file
// the fopen opens a file filename, with certain permissions
// in this case "r" means read permission
// to write you can use "w" (beware opening a file like this overwrites the file

Now when you have a valid FILE*, you can use fscanf and fgets to extract strings from the file, and fprintf and fputs to write into a file.

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FILE* file_p = fopen("filename", "r");
fscanf(file_p, "%s", string1);
fscanf(file_p, "%s", string2);

fclose(file_p); // lastly is to use fclose to actually close the file

oh! Thanks for this sky! yes I was looking for the File pointer and file opener. I know how to use it on c++ but idk how to do it on gameEditor.