There is an old thread that talks about opening a file using windows fopen. This includes an example and the example works.
the thread is here
Can someone point me to an explanation of how to read a line of text from the file that you opened? Or how to use the windows file commands in stdio.h or windoes.h files in Zorro.
I've spent most of the last two days trying to figure this out.
Read more ways than I care to admit about how to read a line from a file in both c++ references and windows references, but I can't make it work.
The file functions in zorro don't seem to be helpful either.
You can read the entire file. Then use string functions to find what you want? That seems extreme.
I'm making progress, but still running into obstacles.
Thanks
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You can find a short script example how to read numbers from a file in the "string functions" chapter. Reading lines instead of numbers should be not very difficult, depending on what you want to do with those lines.

A more complex example for reading data from the data fields of a spreadsheet file can be found here (under "Special data export/import"):

http://manual.zorro-trader.com/export.htm

Thanks JCL,
That's very helpful. Did not see it before.
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