Deleting With File Objects

[jes00]

What would be the function to delete something with file objects?

[Ad Bot]

[Headcrab Zombie]

fileDelete("path/to/file");
Or do you mean deleting something inside the file?

[MegaScientifical]

Deleting files uses an independent command. There's no direct relation to fileObjects.

[Port]

You may also find isFile("path/to/file") useful in your file deleting adventures.

[jes00]

fileDelete("path/to/file");
Or do you mean deleting something inside the file?

Inside the file.

[Headcrab Zombie]

You'll need to read everything in the file, store it somewhere (a string only if you know the file will never go over 4096 bytes, otherwise you'll need to use another file), delete the line you're looking for, than rewrite it.

For example, something like this

Using a string

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%file = new FileObject();
%file.openForRead("base/myFile.txt");
while(!%file.isEoF())
    %wholeFile = %wholeFile NL %file.readLine();
%file.close();
strReplace(%wholeFile,"stuff to delete\n","");
%file.openForWrite("base/myFile.txt");
%file.writeLine(%wholeFile);
%file.close();
%file.delete();

Using another file

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fileCopy("base/myFile.txt","base/myFileBuffer.txt");
%file = new FileObject();
%file.openForWrite("base/myFile.txt");
%fileBuffer = new FileObject();
%fileBuffer.openForRead("base/myFileBuffer.txt");
while(!%fileBuffer.isEoF())
{
%line = %fileBuffer.readLine();
if(%line !$= "stuff to delete")
%file.writeLine(%line);
}
%file.close();
%file.delete();
%fileBuffer.close();
%fileBuffer.delete();
fileDelete("base/myFileBuffer.txt");
Both untested

[Ipquarx]

Or you could base it on single lines (using arrays) and search through them for a certain word or text, and then set that line to a blank value, and then write the entire file, so it wont write the line you overwrote with  a blank value.

allthough its not a very efficiant way, it's the easiest, doesnt have a size limit (the real limit is either your computers power or how big you need the file to be), and is also more easily adaptable to many other things, like editing and adding lines.

[jes00]

Does not work.

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function removePerson(%name)
{
%file = new FileObject();
%file.openForRead("Add-Ons/Client_Chatbot/AllowedNames.txt");
while(!%file.isEOF())
{
%wholeFile = %wholeFile NL %file.readLine();
}
%file.close();
strReplace(%wholeFile,%name @ "\n","");

%file.openForWrite("Add-Ons/Client_Chatbot/AllowedNames.txt");
%file.writeLine(%wholeFile);

%file.close();
%file.delete();
}


[Uristqwerty]

Is Client_Chatbot a .zip? If so, then writing to that file will create a folder called Client_Chatbot, and write the modified file to it, leaving the original unchanged.

[jes00]

Is Client_Chatbot a .zip? If so, then writing to that file will create a folder called Client_Chatbot, and write the modified file to it, leaving the original unchanged.

No it's not a .zip

[mp7964]

You should just create the file in base/config/. If you're trying to censor people's chat you don't want to see, there's no way I can think of to do it client-sided.

[MegaScientifical]

If you're trying to censor people's chat you don't want to see, there's no way I can think of to do it client-sided.

Badspot includes clientside chat censoring by default. Or did I imagine that?

[jes00]

So the file is now in config/client/ChatBot/allowedNames.txt but that still does not fix my problem.

Badspot includes clientside chat censoring by default. Or did I imagine that?

I think you imagined that.

[MegaScientifical]

I think you imagined that.

[jes00]

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But what does it censor?