Thread: Level

Hi

I am programming a Pac man game. But I don't know how I can create a Level. I have upload the file, where you can see how the level should look. P stands for Pacman, M for his opponent, and # is a power up, * is the wall and ... is the stuff which he has to collect. My first idea, was that I convert this file into an Array. Then I could use a for loop, to display it on the Screen.
But how can access the file?
Can someone please help me?

Reading, Writing, and Creating Files

Thank you for your reply

I have tried to implement it, but it doesn't work.

public class Level {
 
	File file;
 
	public void read() throws IOException {
 
		FileReader data = new FileReader(file);
 
		BufferedReader b = new BufferedReader(data);
		int row = 0;
		String content = b.readLine();
 
		while (content != null) {
			row++;
			content = b.readLine();
		}
		data.close();
 
		data = new FileReader(file);
		b = new BufferedReader(data);
 
		char[] chararray = new char[1000];
		int i = 0;
		while ((i = data.read(chararray)) >= 0) {
 
		}
 
		char field[][] = new char[row][i / row];
 
		data.close();
 
	}
 
}

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