This is the right place to ask! :)  coll is supposed to be able to open textfiles, but I think they are supposed to have a specific format.  It is meant for Max/MSP compatibility, you might have better luck with the native Pd versions: textfile and qlist

.hc

On Dec 13, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Donal Carey wrote:

Hi all
 
Apoligies if this is not the correct place for asking these sorts of questions.
 
Can the 'coll' object read items from a text file?
 
What I want to do is have several messages stored in a textfile, load them into coll and then output them one at a time. Is this possible, everytime I try and load a text file into coll I get the error ...
 
"coll: bad atom
error (miXed): coll: error reading text file 'C:/Documents and Settings/Donal/Desktop/pd project/clips/masterText.txt"
 
 
Thanks and regards
Donal
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