FileSeek?

[NickBlack]

hello everyone, I can't seem to figure out how to Flile_Seek Specific Points.

eg. I'll have a file like this:

1.5;0.56;5

2.2;0.66;8

0.3;0.75;5.2

 

and I want to Get the second line down, and third deliminated number across. (8)

i take it it should look something like this (Error handleing not shown for clairity):

int FileHandle;
int Delimination = 3;
int LinesUpDown = 2
double value;

FileHandle=FileOpen("Three.txt", FILE_CSV|FILE_READ, ';');
//????   FileSeek(FileHandle, Delimination, LinesUpDown);  ?????//
value=FileReadDouble(FileHandle,DOUBLE_VALUE);
FileClose(FileHandle);

Alert (value," < This is the value your looking for *jedi hand wave*);

but i know that Wont work becouse the second value int FileSeek is mesured in bytes (characters) not deliminations, and the third number is suppose to be a constant like SEEK_CUR, SEEK_SET, and SEEK_END.

does anyone know of a way to do this? Thank you in advance

[Simon Gniadkowski]

Just read the data you don't want and throw it away,  then you will be at the data you do want and can read i and keep it. FileSeek() is usually used with binary (BIN) files.

[NickBlack]

RaptorUK:
Just read the data you don't want and throw it away,  then you will be at the data you do want and can read i and keep it. FileSeek() is usually used with binary (BIN) files.  

Thank you :) sometimes I'm thinking to complex to see the simple answer. though perhaps not the most elegant way to do it, that will work just fine for me, thank you ^.^ cheers.

[Simon Gniadkowski]

nickblack:
Thank you :) sometimes I'm thinking to complex to see the simple answer. though perhaps not the most elegant way to do it, that will work just fine for me, thank you ^.^ cheers.

You can do elegant later once you have functional working.