Just knocked up a little thing to add to utils for the player info stuff... Copy this and call it testfile.bb!
; read test file Print readitem("testfile.bb","speed") Print readitem("testfile.bb","maxhealth") Print readitem("testfile.bb","protection") Print readitem("testfile.bb","toilet") WaitKey Function readitem$(filename$,item$) filein = ReadFile(filename) ret$ = "?Null?" lin$ = "" Repeat l$ = ReadLine(filein) lb = Instr(l$,"<"+item+">") rb = Instr(l$,"</"+item+">") If lb>0 And rb>0 lb = lb + Len("<"+item+">") ret= Mid(l,lb,rb-lb) EndIf Until Eof(filein) CloseFile filein Return ret$ End Function ; test file ;<maxhealth>100</maxhealth> ;<speed>0.1</speed> ;<protection>2</protection>