Unity C# Coding: Read and Display information from a Text File.

In this Unity Tutorial, i'll show you how to display information in a text file!

*Note, a vertical layout group and content size fitter was placed on the content window to allow the text objects to display one after another and scroll properly.

[danielgarciagonzalez]

Simple, direct, clear, andd with results. How to do a tutorial 101 right here.

[diamonsterish]

Explained perfectly fine! An easy way to bind any text to be manipulated externally.

[lephobix]

Thx for the tutorial! But for displaying the text I used a slightly simpler method: I made a reference to the textfield and created a string called txt-> string txt = + "/Saves/" + "Chat" + ".txt"; Then I used this method to get the text -> string fileLines = File.ReadAllText(txt); And instead of using the foreach method I just set the textfield text equal to the string fileLines, that I've created. And it also works! :D

[michaelwilson]

Nice.
I really do need to start paying more attention to the usefulness of prefabs. Ive basically only been using them for visual objects, like characters, buildings etc..

[LouisCubingChannel]

I've tried but it said !NullReferenceException: Obiect reference not set to an instance of an object

[OintmentNailhead]

I followed the tutorial, but all of my code is stacking on top of each other in Unity. Does anyone know a fix?

[hai_vt]

My GetText.cs file opened from Visual studio by Unity doesn't recognite it as a C# file (it doesn't recognize functions) and instead of Run button, VS show Attach button. Can you help me with this problem?

[mmorkolf]

bro dat string list gonna save us all! bless

[ΜαρίαΛιάσκου-ιτ]

Hello. I tried the tutorial but my text appears on the same location. I use a. txt file where I store the name and the score of each player who uses the game. What am I doing wrong?

[reginadominique]

Nice video, i just have one question, when my text displayed all the text was heaped how to solve this?

[OwlTeaGames]

These text tutorials are great! I have subscribed and faved!

I've been researching this and xml to find the best way to store large amounts of texts (like poems and microfiction). The problem I'm having is that I can't figure out how to sort the data properly, which leads me to think I should have a separate text file for every single story. That way stuff like author, genre, date, etc. can simply be sorted by the order of their line.

One text file with tens of thousands of entries, or one folder with tens of thousands of files? Hard to say which is best at this point. I will keep watching for inspiration!

[hugolammens]

Hi, i have a Null reference error at the line : recallTextObject.GetComponent, any idea ?

[muhammadumer]

all recall object instantiate at same line at first how to handle?

[jacobov]

awesome video! I was able to finish my homework!

[arejustpolygons]

nice channel it helped me with my game

[Unity_Disk]

Awesome Tutorial, for better understanding I would suggest you hint to the video discription. Almost missed That Information.

[oblivionempire]

I am making a quiz style game for Android. Will this method work on Android or will some of it need to be changed? I been having some issues with text file displaying on mobile device but works fine on the unity editor. You explained it really well so hoping I can use it on mobile

[ozgurgurbuz]

I wonder how can I exactly remove a specific line in recalled text?

[jamesohia]

I have a problem all the texts displaying in the same location and I followed your exact tutorial.

[ERuopp-zylu]

Hi
First of all thanks for the Video.
Is there a way to clear the ScrollView before refreshing it? Every time I try to print the file again, it just gets appended under the still displayed old data...