Hi,

I intend to use data that I have received stored as excel files and alternatively text files. I would like to use this data as a stream of control messages.

The text file is formatted like this:

"here is"
"information"
"about this"
"section"
0
0
0
12
123
3232
12345
1243132
1233243
232
322
112
0
0
"here is"
"information"
"about the next"
"section"
0
0
0
23
54
0
0

As a first test I would like to be able to something along these lines:

conditional take action:
skip/pause/etc depending on symbol (0,")
and
use [metro] to bang to output each line.

I guess there are several ways to go, but the text files are huge so I prefer to not edit them, at least at this stage.

EDIT: the excel/text file has 202569 lines... not that great to load at once, that is why I would like to read it like a stream.

Cheers

I guess it's better to do this in another language, like Python, which is great in handling text files. Perhaps the new [file] object included in the current test version of Pd will be better than [text], haven't tested it yet though.

I tested to just copy and paste some snippets into [text define] and to use it with [text sequence]. It works pretty well, stepping it through with [metro].

Good point with Python. I'll have to look into that.