loadFile & Compile: Error with comments

[ManDay 0]

^ Nuff said. Compile will produce an error when comments are in the string.

[raedor 8]

Can you show an example? For me it does not bring up an error on comments

[ManDay 0]

0 spawn( compile loadFile "test.sqf" );

test.sqf:

while{ true }

{

//Again and Again...

sleep 1;

};

---

Should bring you up an error.

[raedor 8]

Sure. Use preprocessFile if you want to have C-like comments.

[ManDay 0]

Okay. Thanks.

[Taurus 20]

Anyone knows why "loadFile" exist at all?

The only reason for it as I see it is for "hardcore"-scripters* who doesn't bother to add comments?

There might be some performance gains too?

the

preprocessFileLineNumbers-command

is pretty nice if you have a huge script it'll return the line-number which you have an error at.

*stupid IMHO

[Maddmatt 1]

Anyone knows why "loadFile" exist at all?

The only reason for it as I see it is for "hardcore"-scripters* who doesn't bother to add comments?

There might be some performance gains too?

the

preprocessFileLineNumbers-command

is pretty nice if you have a huge script it'll return the line-number which you have an error at.

*stupid IMHO

It does support comments, just not C-like ones. Use them like this:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">comment "insert comment here";

I doubt there are any performance improvements with loadfile. Maybe preprocessfile will have slightly better performance?

Are there any real differences between preprocessfile and loadfile?

[crashdome 3]

IIRC, preprocessfile loads into memory and loadfile discards it when completed

[EDit] I believe I am right, because back in SOW v2.0 we used it to load big init functions at mission start and I preferred that over preprocessfile because I knew it would be discarded.

[UNN 0]

Quote[/b] ]loadfile discards it when completed

How can you tell? In my experience, once you Loadfile it, it's there for the duration.

[kegetys 2]

preprocessFile just does C like preprocessing (Comments, macros, etc.). It should be a bit slower than loadFile, but I doubt it makes a difference in any well designed 'real life' scenario. loadFile is needed if you do not want preprocessing, for example if you do this:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

hint loadFile "message.txt"

If you used preprocessfile instead of loadfile here, and message.txt would contain, for example "// hello world \\" then the result would not be what you'd expect as preprocessFile would remove the message as it would think it's a comment.

[Nutty_101 0]

Now if we could have the comments work on spawn and call. That would be even better for people like me who don't always pull the scripts down from files.

[raedor 8]

Additonally, it was not possible in OFP (or only certain versions?) to use preprocessFile from addon scripts, so you had to use loadFile there. So it's also still there for compatibility uses.

[crashdome 3]

preprocessFile just does C like preprocessing (Comments, macros, etc.). It should be a bit slower than loadFile, but I doubt it makes a difference in any well designed 'real life' scenario. loadFile is needed if you do not want preprocessing,

OK, I correct myself... THAT is more of what i remember.