I'm trying to write a text file containing x, y, z coordinates.

I have the x, y and z coords as dynamic numbers so I was considering using the
[ textfile ] object to write this .txt.

the text ouput needs to read in this fashion:

10.34, 123.0, 134.0
34.2, 234, 22.3
32.3, 543.2, 22.1

where the delimiter can be anything.

So i tried sending the dynamic numbers to this [write /tmp/positions.txt cr ].

Does anyone know how I might be able to write this .txt file?
I've attached my file so you can see.

Thanks!!!!!!!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/textwrite.pd

try this out

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/writethisway.pd

That work's perfect!
Thanks!

Thanks for this guidance Sunji! I'm wondering, is there a way to add more spaces between the list that is output? Or is there a way to separate with commas instead of spaces? I want to import my data into excel from the text file, excel likes bigger spaces or commas to delineate the content of the file into columns.

Thanks!

3 years ago... but still usefull.

I wanted to write a file similar to yours, to be imported into a spreadsheet software, as CSV (Comma Separated Values). [textfile] store in space-separated-values with return-carriage (or semicolon/return-carriage) data separator.

LibreOffice can import CSV with tab or comma or semicolon or space (or any other) values separator. I don't know about MS-Excel.

Did you get what you needed?

I think you've have more luck with [text] than [textfile]. It's a more powerful object, and wasn't around 3 years ago.

A quick test shows that [text] can write .csv files, but it's going to be difficult to make it distinguish between rows and columns, since it reads both commas and semi-colons and line-ends. The easiest way might be, as you suggested, to pick some other arbitrary symbol for the line separator, and then let LibreOffice do the work of separating columns.

@MarioMey As @LiamG says..... the newer [text] object in Vanilla Pd is the solution if it can work with your data.

However, if that does not work then you should try the much more comprehensive object that was in the "iemlib" library included in Pd extended, and that is probably available via Deken for Vanilla.....
[iem_pbank_csv]........
It can set different separators (blank or space, semi-colon, or tabulator) and end of line characters (return, or any of the separator characters followed by return).

You will not get very far with comma as a separator (in spite of the "csv" name) as Pd will always interpret a comma as "new message"....... so "end of the line".
Noawdays "comma separated values" is anyway a very misleading name for many data storage systems.
David.