File Loading issues...

[OS]

I need to know what is wrong with this code:

  def generate_dialogue
    filename = "NPCS/#{@sex}#{@person}.npc"
    if FileTest.exist?(filename)
      file = File.open(filename, 'r')    
      dialogue = file.readlines
      return dialogue
    else
      return ["DIALOGUE ERROR: This NPC's dialogue could not be found.", "To fix the error, create the file \"#{filename}\""]
    end
  end

It tells me there is no file of the name "Male0.npc", even though I have made a folder and placed all the NPCs in it. The second NPC doesn't load either. Please tell me if I did something wrong in my code. I really appreciate any help.

Also, I can't supply the rest of the script, so if you have any questions, just ask.

 

[Sheol]

The script doens't have error, the problem is the file doens't exist.

 

[OS]

But it does exist. I placed the file in a folder I called NPCS. It is there, and I can prove it. See, it is right here:

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Those are the files, and if you check the address in the address bar you might notice they are in folder NPCS in my project folder, 0.0.0 To Billy and John.

Is the file named incorrectly in the script? I tried using \ instead of /, but that didn't work. This is a really annoying little problem...

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Try begin rescue end instead.

begin
  return IO.readlines('Filename.txt')
rescue
  return ['File Not Found']
end

But you have to remember, it loads from your exe directory, so if you make a folder in your Game directory, be sure to include that in your call line.


Why are you naming them .npc? Are you hiding file extensions, because since it is a text document, they would either be filename.npc.txt or you did something else. Just name them filename_npc.txt.

 

[Totti]

Sephiroth is right you files still have the extension of .txt, so to call that file you would use "Male0.npc.txt" if you are too lazy to change it.

 

[OS]

Oh. I thought that I could save it as anything I wanted in Notepad, and it would act like a new file type...

Well, you were right. I added .txt to that line, and it ran fine. Thanks.

Now for another question:

My class uses these files to generate different dialogues for NPCs, so I need to be able to have a way to call a specific NPC's information, such as Name and Gender. Gender is easy because each file is gender specific. But to get an NPC's name, I tried #{@name}, assuming that the dialogue would except it as the NPC's name because the dialogue is in the same class as the @name variable. But it doesn't show the name. Can someone please show me how to show variables in text files that have been loaded?

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Tell me exactly what you are planning on doing with these text files. Like loading specific lines of a text file for text in a message or something.

 

[OS]

Yeah, but no need to worry. Mr. Mo showed me how to use the gsub command, and everything is fine. Thanks though. RESOLVED.

 

[SephirothSpawn]

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Thank you!