davepoo / project-anarchy-utf8-reader

Allows reading line by line reading of a UTF-8 text file created with Notepad++ in Project Anarchy game engine

Project Anarchy UTF-8 Reader

The cBufferedReaderUTF8 class allows line by line reading of a UTF-8 text file created with Notepad++ inside the Project Anarchy game engine.

Usage

• Create a file in Notepad++
• Enter a few lines of text
• Save it as UTF-8 encoded without BOM
• The following example code shows how read the file inside your game using the readLine() method

	#include "BufferedReaderUTF8.h"
	
	// Reads 10 lines of text from the file
	void loadText(VString file) {
		//open the stream
		IVFileInStream* fin = Vision::File.Open(file);
		VASSERT_MSG(fin != NULL, "The text file could not be opened" );
		cBufferedReaderUTF8 reader = cBufferedReaderUTF8( fin );
	
		//read the number of strings in the file
		const int numStrings = 10;
		for (int i = 0; i < numStrings; i++) {
			VString line = reader.readLine();

			// do something with the line that was read here....
		}
		
		
		//close the stream
		fin->Close();
	}

Author

https://www.projectanarchy.com/users/davepoo

License

This source code is free do anything you want with