Hello Everyone,

I was looking for a video or explanation that showed how to prepare data for usage in Pure Data from a CSV File but I could't find any. So I figured it out myself after playing around with the example sketchs and got something that worked for me.

Since there were no easily found videos on the community or YouTube, I created an explanation for how to prepare data from a CSV for usage in Pure Data with the {text define] and the [text get] objects.

The data is from a Mechanical Ventilator that was in 5 columns, 1 column for a timestamp and 4 columns of data for each timestamp. This was formatted as an excel CSV and manipulated from here.

This video explains how to convert the data from a CSV into a TXT file in order for Pure Data to accurately read the data.

This video explains the sketch in a general sense.

Here is the sketch I used, I only used the GEM Library with the basic install of Pure Data to keep externals to a minimum.
FileReader.pd

- This is the final Sketch in Action

I hope this helps someone down the line. Good luck!