I have a very newbyish C question.
I am making a game and I am stuck.I need to read a world map file that is 1000 characters long and 30 characters tall into an array map[30][1000].

for(int x=0;x<=worldheight;x++)
{
//map[x]=read a string 1000 characters long;
}

i've tried fscanf ,fread,fgets ,but the file position seems to be off or something.Im a little new to c++ so c code is easier to understand for me.Please help me.

Is this a text file? If yes, every line ends in a newline character ('\n', ASCII 0x0A), that's why the file position is off.

Its a unicode file created with gedit.What application should I use for an ascii file?It seems to be off quite a bit.Here is more code showing some of my attempts .I am shortening my world to 100 characters until I figure this out.

for(int x=0;x<=worldheight;++x)
{
// for(int y=0;y<=worldwidth-1;y++)
// {
// fgets(world[x],worldwidth,WORLD);

fread(world[x],sizeof(char),worldwidth,WORLD);
// fseek(WORLD,x*worldwidth,SEEK_SET);
printf("world y =%d \n",strlen(world[x]));
printf("world[x] =%s \n",world[x]);
// }
}

If I know the length of the newline character maybe I can fseek past it ?or shorten my reads by that amount?
Any example code will be contibution to my eventually open source game

What UNICODE encoding is it? If it's UTF-8 and you use only ASCII characters (0 to 127), this shouldn't be a problem. Otherwise: save it as ASCII encoded (I don't know how to do that in gedit, look for something like "Encoding").

Then you can use fgets() for every line and copy the first 100 characters into the array (don't forget error checking: the file might be corrupt). If the file is not corrupt (ie. 100 characters per line, plus newline-character), then there's no need for fseek().

OK I got it .My file is a UTF-8.Here is the code I used .Maybe it will help someone else.


for(int x=0;x<=worldheight-1;x++)
{
if(fgets(world[x],worldwidth+1,WORLD)==NULL)cout<<"error reading world \n";
cout<<"world length "<<strlen(world[x])<<"\n";
cout<<"world data "<<world[x]<<"\n";
}

With some error checking.Thanks a bunch for the help.