[XMark]

I just made a simple looping structure in my scripting language. The way it works is, while it's interpreting the text word by word, if it finds the word LOOP then it gets a pointer to the position in the file using tellg(). And when it finds the word LOOPBACK it simply uses seekg to zip back to the beginning of the loop. But something weird happens. When I loopback, it loops to a position a certain number of spaces after the LOOP statement. And that number of erroneous spaces is different depending on the position of the LOOP. Now this is weird because I expect tellg to tell me where I am in the file, not to say "uh... you're kinda somewhere in the 43857 area, give or take a bit." What could the problem be?

UPDATE:

After googling a bit, it seems I'm not the only person to run into crazy problems with tellg. The problem could be that MingW screwed up the implementation of tellg in non-binary modes... though that sounds like a pretty major, glaring error that would have been noticed and fixed...

SECOND UPDATE:

Yep, changing it to binary input fixed everything. I rule!
A new record: I think I figured this out before anyone even READ my post :)
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[valderman]

I think reading text scripts from disk and interpreting them at the same time is a really bad idea...sounds slow. Of course, this only matters if you constantly have scripts running, like one weather script and a crapload of AI scripts.
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[XMark]

Nah, the scripts are only read when you hit an entity, like when you're talking to someone or when you exit a map. If I had constantly running scripts I'd put 'em in memory on map load, but for my purposes that's a bit of overkill.
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[Bjorn]

What if you want to store your scripts in datafile later? Ah ok, then you can think about that later as well. :-)

[XMark]

hmm... interesting. I suppose if I go into datafiles, putting scripts into memory would be an option.

Hey, while I'm here, I might as well show off a snippet of what my scripting code looks like:

[valderman]

That looks almost as cryptic as the ASM code for my VM... ;P
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[XMark]

Yay! I just simplified the scripting engine so it has an internal value for the loop counter so you don't have to do loops manually.