I'm sure there must be an easy way to do this, but I'm at a loss.

I want to pack a sequence of floats into a list (or message list?), and to hold that data there without sending anything, then later be able to bang out the nth element of that list on demand.

It would be a huge help if someone could point me in the right direction.

Cheers

Best would probably be to write the data into an array using [tabwrite]
And so on...

Then you could use [tabread]s index to get the nth element...

wk's solution is elegant, but I'll just write the values into an array like following, which you may find even easier than [tabwrite] method:

[; array1 0 60 62 64 66 68(

the zero at the head of the list is not a value, it is just a starting point (index number) at which the list will begin.

good luck

Thanks for the responses. Got things working smoothly with an array. And writing the values into the array like with the ';' keeps things intuitive for me.

Much appreciated!

You should try the zl object. It's in the cyclone library. It's got a 'nth' method which takes a list as argument and outputs the specified nth element.