Hi, simple question but maybe with an advanced answer:
How do I get Dev-Pascal to read other files?

Example
I've tried to make a variable and make it as a text for example (var test:text and then assign(text,'textfile.txt'); but then I want pascal to read it and open it in the console and print out the text on the screen.

This is not the only thing I wanted to test. I want to try to make other files like pictures, textfiles and all to be opened by pressing on the exe file. Like everytime i press that *exe file all the files I've written in it will be opened.

Dunno if it works, just asking, and hopefully getting ansers.

Er, you are using FreePascal as the compiler, right? (Not GNU Pascal?)

To open a text file, and print every line in it prefixed by the line number:

If you are using GNU Pascal I think you can still use the above, but GPC tends toward the Extended Pascal syntax, which means that external file variables must be declared as bindable, and opened using different routines than reset and closeFile.

Hope this helps.

it's Blodsheet Dev Gnu-Pascal. it won't work, had to delete closefile and change string to char cause this was the error I got:

c:\documents and settings\07patrik\skrivbord\untitled1.pas:4: warning: missing string capacity - assuming 255
c:\documents and settings\07patrik\skrivbord\untitled1.pas: In main program:
c:\documents and settings\07patrik\skrivbord\untitled1.pas:21: undeclared identifier `Closefile' (first use in this routine)
c:\documents and settings\07patrik\skrivbord\untitled1.pas:21: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
c:\documents and settings\07patrik\skrivbord\untitled1.pas:21: for each routine it appears in.)

And when I've changed string to char (just to test so it works) and deleted closefile it popups for.. 0,5seconds.. :/ like it did before when I tested the first thing I wrote (top)

(Sorry to respond so late. Dinner called.)

But it didn't complain about "reset"? Sounds like you are using BORLAND mode.
I used an Object Pascal thing, sorry:

instead of "assignFile" say "assign"
instead of "closeFile" say "close"

And make sure you give your string a length
var s: string[ 255];

If this stuff doesn't work then you are using ISO Pascal mode, and handling files is entirely different. Let me know.

no problem.. I can't get it to work.. I have made like my posted program above, then changed "assignfile" and "closefile" to "assign" and "close".. now it popups.. but goes away directly after it comes up, like if you just make a problem like "hello world" without a readln at the end.. any more help?

Sounds like the Dev IDE is too stupid to realize that you have made a console program. I refuse to use Bloodshed anything, so I don't know anything about the program, but there should be something in there to keep the console visible. Poke around the menus and see if you can find it.

The other option is just to add
to the end of your program (just before the end. statement). The analogy to Hello World is exactly right --the same thing is happening.

Hope this helps.

Well, it still won't work. (I'm not so often on this site so It can take a few days before coming back, sorry for that, will try to update myself earlier).

It won't open the txt file. Where should the txt be putted anyway? I putted it in the same directory as the exe and with the name as entered in pascal.

Post your code and I'll take a look at it.

program Untitled;
var
t: text;
s: string[255];
i: integer;
begin
assign( t, 'untitled.txt' );
reset( t );
if IOResult <> 0 then
begin
writeln( 'untitled' );
halt( 1 )
end;

i := 1;
readln( t, s );
while not eof( t ) do
begin
writeln( 'line ', i, ': ', s );
readln( t, s );
inc( i )
end;

close( t )
end.


(don't remember the pascal code for easier reading)

It just pops up a window in the console REALLY fast, and I can read "untitled" in it. but I want to open the txt file in the "assigned application" (for the file, default program to open the file format)

I compiled and executed your program with FreePascal 2.2, Delphi 5, and Turbo Pascal 4 and it works just fine for me.

The file "untitled.txt" should be in the same directory as the exe.

It is possible that the IDE is running your program in the wrong directory. Try executing it from the command line.

Hope this helps.