Basically, I need to make a program that takes a word and a 4 digit argument, and turns it into a 6 digit argument with the first two digits corresponding to the word. Ideally this would occur in 2 txt files, reading from one and writing to another.

Example (not definite #s)
If 0103 would be 210103

One way I was thinking was python, since it has the so very lovely dictionaries. However, I'm not so good at python, and it's pretty much a choice between that, C, and maybe C++. No .net (sorry sir ) since I am on linux and mono is being a pain.

BTW this is for a processor I'm making, so don't expect to recognize anything.

BTW this is for a processor I'm making, so don't expect to recognize anything.

Is it bad that I recognize 0103 as the hex code for BSRF R1 for SH3 processors, then?

Well, assuming you have a space dividing the word and the number, and assuming follows the format you gave, and assuming that there's only one command per line (wow, I'm assuming a lot of things, aren't I?), here would be a basic script that takes a text file named 'thing.txt' and creates a second text file named 'otherthing.txt' (although you probably would end up wanting this to to automatically generate the output file name).

import sys

table = {"If":"21",
         "While":"32",
         "etc...":"25",
         ...
         "For":"91"}


input_path = "C:\\Users\\TheGame\\SomeDirectory\\thing.txt"
output_path = "C:\\Users\\Lobster\\n_example\\otherthing.txt"
# The double slashes are recommended - you don't want to accidentally have a '\n' somewhere.

input_file = open(input_path, "r")
output_file = open(output_path, "w")



for line in input_file:
    cut = line.index(" ")    # This searches for the position of the space
    replacement = table[line[0:cut]]
    output_file.write(replacement + line[cut+1:] + "\n")
    # Just doing line[cut:] would include the space.



input_file.close()
output_file.close()

Print("Done!")



It's a bit simple, but I hope it helps!

Yup, no problem!  Glad to help.

Just be aware that most forms of input will automatically turn single slashes into double slashes, so you probably won't have to account for those (although you should test to be certain).

Graagh, this is giving me a syntax error.....

source.close()

and I dont know why.....

hehe, just figured it out IIRC, it was a ), but thanks! BTW, it's done!