So I have a section of code for a program I working on that reads in other text files that are specified inside of the first file. However, I am having some problems with my variable, newText and txt. If I use the javascript alert, it will work, but if I take out the alert(txt); my code breaks, and newText is undefined.
function createStates(textArr, numStates, acts)
{
textArr.splice();
var states = [];
var path = window.prompt("Please enter the path to your state files", "");
for( var i =0; i < numStates; i++)
{
// reward for being in state, terminal, then statefile
var reward = parseInt(textArr.shift());
var terminal = parseInt(textArr.shift());
if(terminal == 0)
{
var newText = [];
var nextFile = path + String(textArr[0]);
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
var txt;
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function(){
if(xmlhttp.status == 200 && xmlhttp.readyState == 4){
txt = xmlhttp.responseText;
newText = String(txt).split(/[\r\n]+/g);
}
};;
xmlhttp.open("GET","file:///" + nextFile,true);
xmlhttp.send();
alert(txt);
var state = new State(reward, acts, newText);
states.push(state);
}
textArr.shift();
}
return states;
}
Alse, here is what one of the text files that it is handling looks like,
4 11
0 0 0 0 0 0 0.8 0 0 0.1 0.1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0 0 0.8 0.1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.9
0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0.9
And this is for a school project, and I have to read in the files from a local computer. I am using firefox to run this since chrome blocks the loading of local files.
