You can also see what Chris McCormick's s-abstractions can do for you. I use s-map to handle big 'tables' (many rows of long lists they are). It doesn't need 'list' at the beginning of the lines :)

Andras

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:
None of the [list] objects will work either, for the reasons I wrote below.  For an example of what I'm
saying, open text-float.txt, add the word "list" at the beginning and save it.  Then you will see that your
patch works.
 
If anyone knows of an external that works like [textfile] but outputs each line as a list, that would solve your problem.
 
-Jonathan

From: matohawk <matohawk@gmail.com>
Cc: pd-list <Pd-list@iem.at>
Sent: Wed, June 30, 2010 3:58:56 AM
Subject: Re: [PD] Problem with Textfile and line with float

Hi Jonathan,

Yes I know textfile "works" but I can't put any kind of object behind this Texfile.

I'll try all list object and this the same problem.
Look this :
http://www.th-th.fr/DOCS/Patch/bug-texfile.pd


I need to read this line with float at the begining but I can't.
So I think we will take a script to do this because textfile can't do this.

Thanks for your help
Thomas