01 Sep, 2009, Kline wrote in the 21st comment:
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Davion helped me fix this on IMC! In short, "shuffling stuff", if you look at the sample output I posted from the first #ROOM to the first End was properly formatted, with a Sector 11 as the final element. After that, the next #ROOM was re-using the 11 as it's vnum and everything else (name, desc, etc) seemed to bump one spot along in the same trend. I ended up needing to clear out the temporary buffer I was using on each use and add a while( (c = file.get()) != '#' ) inside my first loop.
01 Sep, 2009, quixadhal wrote in the 22nd comment:
One thing that might prove useful to you, when you start trying to use this on non-sample-sized data, is to keep a pair of variables that you can track line numbers and byte-positions within your input file.
That way, as you're parsing, you can emit warnings about bad (but correctable) format errors and skip around them using fseek(). Or, if it's a fatal parse error, report the actual useful position within the file.
Seeing "Bad door flag on Line 2381" is much more useful than "Bad door flag, aborting!"
Once upon a time, I started writing a generic one of these things using perl and regex's. I snarf'd the whole file in and then beat on it to pick it apart.
That way, as you're parsing, you can emit warnings about bad (but correctable) format errors and skip around them using fseek(). Or, if it's a fatal parse error, report the actual useful position within the file.
Seeing "Bad door flag on Line 2381" is much more useful than "Bad door flag, aborting!"
Once upon a time, I started writing a generic one of these things using perl and regex's. I snarf'd the whole file in and then beat on it to pick it apart.
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