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[lefthandblack]

Yeah, that did it.
Thanks, I really appreciate the help, I was starting to get frustrated.

With that problem out of the way, now I can start working on how to actually parse the files.

[lefthandblack]

Well, I finally worked it out. Thanks to everyone that helped.
I went back to a system that uses arrays and after a lot of trial and error, it now works exactly as I intended.
I wrote a parser in C++ at the same time I wrote my NPC app and it was actually just a matter of pasting my C++ code into WM and changing commands as appropriate.

For anyone that's interested:

This is what I'm using to search and match strings in my arrays.

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// SEARCH FOR MATCH
function Search(){
 for (var A = 0; A < myArray1.Length; A = A + 1)
           {
myStringVariable1 = (myArray1[A]);
if (myStringVariable1 == myStringVariable2){
myMatchedString = new String(myArray2[A]);
                          Sleep (1);
Game.Msg(myMatchedString);
}
           }
}
The only caveat is that you have to know how many lines are in your text files and put a for-loop in the section where you are importing them:

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// READ TEXT FILES AND STORE CONTENT IN ARRAYS
function TextToArray(){
myFile1.OpenAsText(1);
myFile2.OpenAsText(1);
for (var a = 0; a < 4; a = a + 1){
myArray1.Push(myFile1.ReadLine());
myArray2.Push(myFile2.ReadLine());
Sleep (1000);
     }
}
Where 'a' is the number of lines in your file.

[Jyujinkai]

wow great stuff.. would love to see a tech demo of this in action!!!

[manarius]

sounds great what you are doing there. always dreamed of a highly sophisticated AI for Npc talking...
atm i dont think that we will use this in our game, but maybe in one of my projects i currently develop in flash 

 
i just dont get one point, in your post you said, flash would not allow you to I/O files.
what about xml? wouldnt that serve your needs?
you could just create a xml-table with strings and combine them with userinput array request.
same thing if you wanna safe some userinput (notices for example)
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cheers
manarius