[pillowCloud]

Hi,
I had a trouble with reading the first line of a file, or to be more accurate, I found that the first character of the file is not something that appears on the actual file, for example:

my file looks like this:

PHP Code:

"pokemon" "pokemon.mp3"
"marko" "marko.mp3" 


but when I'm trying to print the first character of the file (witch shoud be "p"), it's gives me something else:


This causing me troubles when I'm trying to compare the SongName with a client input..
so here's my code:

PHP Code:

#include <amxmodx>

#define MAX_SONG_NAME 32
#define MAX_PATH_SIZE 64

#define CfgFile "addons/amxmodx/configs/cfg.txt"

new SongName[MAX_SONG_NAME];
new SongPath[MAX_PATH_SIZE];

new SongsLoaded;

public LoadSongs()
{
    if (file_exists(CfgFile))
    {
        new text[64];
        new file = fopen(CfgFile, "r");
        
        while (!feof(file))
        {
            fgets(file, text, charsmax(text));
            replace(text, charsmax(text), "^n", "");
            if (text[0] == ';' || !text[0]) continue;
            
            console_print(0, "[ test ] %c", text[0]);
            console_print(0, "[ test2 ] %s", text[0]);
            
            parse(text, SongName, MAX_SONG_NAME, SongPath, MAX_PATH_SIZE);
            
            SongsLoaded++;
        }
        
        fclose(file)
    }
    else
        log_message("(Error) Failed to load file nostalgia.txt.");
} 


Can someone explain me what am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

[Natsheh]

Set file reading flags to "rt" read text probably it's reading binaries

[pillowCloud]

Originally Posted by Natsheh Set file reading flags to "rt" read text probably it's reading binaries

I tried it also, but still same result

EDIT:
If I'm adding an empty line in head of the file, like this:

PHP Code:


"pokemon" "pokemon.mp3"
"marko" "marko.mp3" 


It's works fine,
it's looks like something in the head of the file is including something i can't read.

[edon1337]

Originally Posted by pillowCloud I tried it also, but still same result EDIT: If I'm adding an empty line in head of the file, like this: PHP Code: "pokemon" "pokemon.mp3" "marko" "marko.mp3"  It's works fine, it's looks like something in the head of the file is including something i can't read.

That's why you should always show the full code/config.

[fysiks]

Don't do this:

replace(text, charsmax(text), "^n", "");

Do this:

trim(text)

Not sure this is related to your issue but you might also consider attaching the file you're trying to read so that we can look at it in our own editor and even test your code.

[pillowCloud]

Originally Posted by edon1337 That's why you should always show the full code/config.

Originally Posted by fysiks Don't do this: replace(text, charsmax(text), "^n", ""); Do this: trim(text) Not sure this is related to your issue but you might also consider attaching the file you're trying to read so that we can look at it in our own editor and even test your code.

Firstable, thank you for trying to help,

I did managed to find the solution, to solve this issue I made 3 changes:
1. I changed the the read text property from "r" to "rt"
2. I removed the quotes from the line that I was read, by remove_all function.
3. MOST IMPORTANT: I created a brand new file encoded with ANSI (the old one was encoded by UTF-8, wich may explain why i wasn't been able to print the first character correctly).

I guess this issue was related to UTF-8 compatibility,
Anyway, thanks again for you all!