I need to read a whole line of text (till carriage return) from a file. My text file looks like this

0.000000,16408.875931,106.666691,5251.990296
0.000488,16412.438424,106.666691,5251.990296
0.000977,16412.157174,106.666691,5251.990296
0.001465,16406.750934,106.666691,5251.990296
0.001953,16406.032186,106.666691,5251.990296
0.002441,16402.000943,106.666691,5251.990296
0.002930,16397.688451,106.666691,5251.990296

Unfortunately, I can only read one atom at a time with textfile object and bang, as you can see in the attached patch.

I actually need the whole line, but PD stops after comma. How do I do this?

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

To make it more simple.

How to read a complete line of text till carriage return, regardless of symbols present?

I use [ read ecg_data.txt cr ( command to [ textfile ].

Hi happilylazy

i am sort of lazy too. I think there are maybe better objects for your case, but i am sure you can achieve what you want with combination of

[moocow/any2bytes]
|
[drip]

and a lot of logic.

good luck,

-j-

Depending on how current your version of PD is you might be able to try using the [text] object. It is sort of like a cross between [qlist] and [textfile] but with all sorts of extra features. I'm not sure if it is available in the current extended release but it is definitely in the more recent vanilla versions.