hi all

here is what i want to do.I want to read the contents of a file.i have doen that part.i'm able to tokenize the contents.now i need to store these tokenized strings in an array of strings and be able to access and use them when i need......how do i go about doing that ?If i use the text defintion then i need to predefine my strings in oder to store them as array of strings? how do i declare an array of strings and store strings that i'm reading from my file into it ?
i need help on this badly !!

The only way I have found is using a text object.

here is a sample of what I have done.

code:

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define NumItemStrings = 20;
string strItem1;
string strItem2;
string strItem3;
string strItem4;
string strItem5;
string strItem6;
string strItem7;
string strItem8;
string strItem9;
string strItem10;
string strItem11;
string strItem12;
string strItem13;
string strItem14;
string strItem15;
string strItem16;
string strItem17;
string strItem18;
string strItem19;
string strItem20;

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//				text txtPanels
//
// Description : Holds Positions For strings to be read in for credits and keys for
//				 options
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
text txtPanels
{
	layer	= 100;
	font	= fntCentury12;
	strings	= NumItemStrings;
	string	= strItem1, strItem2, strItem3, strItem4, strItem5, strItem6, strItem7,strItem8,
			  strItem9, strItem10,strItem11,strItem12, strItem13, strItem14, strItem15, strItem16,
			  strItem17, strItem18, strItem19, strItem20;
}


//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//				function ResetStrings()
//
// Description : Resets all of the strings so they are empty
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
function ResetStrings()
{
	var Counter;

	while (Counter < NumItemStrings)
	{
		str_cpy(txtPanels.string[Counter], "                                                                                                    ");
		Counter					 += 1;
	}
}

function SetKeyboardStrings()
{
	ResetStrings();

	str_cpy(strItem1, "Left");
	str_cpy(strItem2, "Right");
	str_cpy(strItem3, "Up");
	str_cpy(strItem4, "Down");
	str_cpy(strItem5, "Space Bar & Left Button");
	str_cpy(strItem6, "ALT & Right Button");
	str_cpy(strItem7, "CTRL");
	
	str_cpy(strItem9, "M");
	str_cpy(strItem10, "R");
	str_cpy(strItem11, "4");
	str_cpy(strItem12, "1 2 3");
	str_cpy(strItem13, "Z");
	}

txtPanels.pos_x			= 330;
txtPanels.pos_y			= 280;
txtPanels.visible		= on;

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thanx jay it helped me get my problem solved