I have a text file I'm trying to read with my AGS game, and this text file has strings with quotes around them. For example:
"You win!"
"You didn't win!"
"You lose!"
I'd like to check for those quotes, and I'm inputting the text one character at a time for a good reason (obviously I'm very secretive and my file looks much more complex than simple quoted lines.) The problem is that when I read the input from the file, I don't ever get those quotes ("), or at least as ASCII decimal 34... so, basically, I can't check it like this:
char ch;
ch = input.ReadRawChar(); //(input being of *File Type)
if(ch == 34) DoSomething();
If you would like to know, I also tried if (ch == '"') just to see if it would work. and if (ch == '\"') gives me an error.
So, where are my quotes going, anyway? is there something else I need to know?
Edit: D'oh! I knew it was my fault. HOWEVER, it would have been easier if this were addressed in the manual, for us programmers who get confused.
For curiosity's sake, and for the record, what was the problem?
Well, there were many problems, but here are the reasons, in general:
1) The limits of ags make me think of clever ways to make my code work, but because I keep thinking that AGS is limited, I like to put the blame on it.
2) Learning the 2.71 string method, which is very useful in this case, but I'm still a little confused since I started working on this yesterday evening while I was falling asleep.
3) I ares an idiot. Which is the true reason why I wasn't seeing those quotes. Basically I was outputting stuff to a label to see what was going on, and I had it change the label at two places before a Wait(1); so it would display a quote, but then it would display the string, and because I had bugs, it displayed nothing but blank. So, that's why I didn't see the quotes.