Hello!

I'm struggling a bit trying to come up with a way of reading in multiple textfiles and acting on each individually. I was initially attempting to utilize [until], but I think I don't fully understand its order of operations as it seem to iterate itself while the nested [until] is still attempting to act upon the currently read in text file. Is there a way to:

1. Read in multiple text files into a single [text] object, thus eliminating the need to have a nested loop OR
2. To prevent [until] from iterating to the next cycle until it receives a bang or something?

Any and all help appreciated. Thanks!

The nested loops should not be a problem, can you post your patch? I think you might just be overlooking something obvious here. Only a few objects actually break order of operations in pd and [until] will not bang again until the chain is completed.

@oid I'll clean it up a bit and post it. I guess I am just generally confused how/when [until] advances to the next iteration. Does it just do so once all child nodes have completed? Initially I thought the right inlet was what advanced it, but I then realized that this is only a stop message for when you trigger it via a [bang]

What objects break the order of operations?

@lo94 Until will not give another bang until the entire chain is complete. Pipe and Delay will break this. Receive and value can possibly seem like they break it as they receive their values by order of creation, I do not think this would often be an issue within a loop, but I suspect folks here can come up with situations where it would be an issue.

@oid Ahh okay, this explanation cleared things up for me. I had accidently done it correctly in another abstraction but this time around I didn't get lucky. Thanks for that, I mistakenly assumed that it was somehow watching the iterator float attached to it and would increment when that value was set from a cold inlet

You might also try using [text {objname} seq]. The inbred text object sequencer.

The help file is pretty verbose. But it a great option for time text reading.