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haXe 2 Beginner's Guide

You're reading from  haXe 2 Beginner's Guide

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2011
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781849512565
Pages 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

haxe 2
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting to know haXe 2. Basic Syntax and Branching 3. Being Cross-platform with haXe 4. Understanding Types 5. The Dynamic Type and Properties 6. Using and Writing Interfaces, Typedefs, and Enums 7. Communication Between haXe Programs 8. Accessing Databases 9. Templating 10. Interfacing with the Target Platform 11. A Dynamic Website Using JavaScript 12. Creating a Game with haXe and Flash Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – Writing the configuration file


Now, let's write a function in ComponentParser to write a configuration file from an instance of Component. So here is our class completed:

class ComponentParser
{
   /**
   *  This function takes a path to a configuration file and returns an instance of ComponentParser
   */
   public static function parseConfigurationFile(path : String)
   {
      var stream = neko.io.File.read(path, false); //Open our file for reading in character mode
      var comp = new Component(); //Create a new instance of Component
      while(!stream.eof()) //While we're not at the end of the file
      {
         var str = stream.readLine(); //Read one line from file
         var fields = str.split(" "); //Split the string using space as delimiter
         if(fields[2] == "0")
         {
            comp.properties.set(fields[0], fields[1]); //Set the key<->value in the properties Hash
         } else
         {
            comp.metadata.set(fields[0], fields...
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