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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.