Hard Saving Variables And Checking Specific Chars And Words

Wanting to make a store that has its own credit, but the server gets restarted a lot, wondered how I can hard save them onto say a floppy disk and or just a program, then I want to know how to read from them I know how read words, but I plan to have it all in one, and try to make it have some kind of formula, so if anyone tampers with it, it will just lower their credit so if they put it higher then it actually makes it lower :)/> thanks for help in advance :D/>

Well.. here is a neat tutorial: http://www.computercraft.info/forums2/index.php?/topic/10654-storing-variables-in-a-file/page__fromsearch__1

Thanks, I searched saving variables and Saving things into files but nothing came up, thanks for the help

Also, I would say that your best bet would be to do 1 of two things…

1. save two copies of the file, and compare the two, making sure that one file is well hidden somewhere (maybe even on a webserver)
2. create your own file format, with a custom encoding system… this way even if they get access to your file, they have to figure out how the data is stored first to then be able to edit it…

I know how to do the first, but not the second, they said they can't put encryption tuts on the forum did they? I will google it now :P/>

Gah :(/>/> can someone help, Wikipedia is very complicated and I found a function to do it, but it doesnt explain anything, I understood the basics, changing a string or anything into something that doesn't make any sense, then having a specific thing at e end to figure the un- understandable stuff, but I have no clue how to do it? >.<

Website: http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/14032-very-simple-string-encryption-decryption/

Encoding… not encryption… and I'm not aware of any such rule unless it was added in the past few days…
Sadly though most people in the past, well, attempt to create a tutorial, and just simply don't…

A project I was working on with another person on these forums we created our own file format scheme… You can see examples of what I mean by encoding.
https://github.com/t.&#46;&#46;/apis/CCTStream
Here is an example of one of our encoded files.
https://raw.github.com/theoriginalbit/CCTube/develop/videos/transcoded-compressed

How do I pull specific chars then?

the read function on the file handle allows you to read one byte at a time. That's the read, not the readAll (with the fs handle).