Thanks Fellippe, I'll take you up on your offer to help actually.
Let us know how we can assist you with any part of OPEN/INPUT stuff.
Is there any way that INPUT can detect the end of a line in a file? I didn't see anything in the wiki on that and playing with it, it looks like it just moves to the first value on the next line when it encounters the end of a line.
What I'm trying to do is write a sub that takes a line from the file that describes an object or obstacle in the game. The artwork I'm using from OpenGameArt doesn't seem to lend itself well to tiling in a logical order, so for each object I'd like to have values that describe which image tiles to use when displaying the object. Because of that, the lines for each object might not be a fixed length.
The workaround I have right now is that in the file, the last field for each line is a string, and then you put the tile numbers in that string, which keeps the line with a fixed number of values. I wrote a sub to parse the string to figure out what tiles to use, but it would seem more efficient just to grab the values from the file instead of having to parse a string.