Reading rom a flat file

[dingusnin]

Hey , i am want to make a custom model thing , where if you are not in the flat file , you will not have a custom model.

so i want the flat file like this:

Steam:ID Model

but the only thing is , i dont know how to asociate the steam id by the model that folows.

this is the code for finding each steam ID , but i still dont know how to make it work

function CustomModel(ply , model)
steamids = string.Explode( "\n", file.Read("custommodels/people.txt") )
model = string.Explode( " ", file.Read("custommodels/people.txt") )
for k,v in pairs(steamids) do
if self:SteamID() == v then
v:SetModel(model)
return true
end
end
return false
end

but that doesnt work.

[yakahughes]

You could get them into table pairs by doing:

[lua]
local custommodels = {}
local lines = string.Explode('\n', file.Read("custommodels/people.txt"))
for k,v in pairs(lines) do
local exploded = string.Explode(' ', v)
table.insert(custommodels, {exploded[1], exploded[2]})
end
[/lua]

Now custommodels[1][1] will be a SteamID and custommodels[1][2] will be the model name or whatever. Do PrintTable(custommodels) if you don't understand the structure.

[MakeR]

Even though that method would work, I would be more inclined to use glon.

[yakahughes]

[QUOTE=MakeR;20269692]Even though that method would work, I would be more inclined to use glon.[/QUOTE]

Yes, glon would be far better. Research that if you don't want human readable and editable files. Because if you load it that way, you have to write it to a file that way too.

[Kogitsune]

Glon and Explode are both excessive for this.

local k, id, mdl, txt

CustomModels = { }

txt = file.Read( "your/custom/models/file.txt" )

for k in txt:gmatch( "%C+" ) do
  id, mdl = k:match( "(%C*)|(%C+)" )

  if id and mdl then
    util.PrecacheModel( mdl )
    CustomModels[ id ] = mdl
  end
end

Saving is simple as well

local res, k, v

res = ""

for k, v in pairs( CustomModels ) do
  res = string.format( "%s%s%s|%s", res, res ~= "" and "\n" or "", k, v )
end

file.Write( "that/path/from/earlier.txt", res )

Untested, but that should do the job.

[yakahughes]

Sucks because it turns all numeric keys and values into strings, and for various other reasons.