Thanks Jack,

Your method works perfectly!

2008/12/2 Jack jack@rybn.org:

I think, you can dig around [list-dripslow], [msgfile] (or similar). Here an exemple. ++

Jack

Le 2 déc. 08 à 15:10, Solen Music a écrit :

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Hi i'm looking for an object that I can read in a text file and bang it so that it outputs each consecutive character/letter in the file.

i.e. bang the object it ouputs the first letter bang the object outputs the second letter etc.

Does such a thing exist??

-- John

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Thanks for all everyone!

I will try those methods!

2008/12/2 Claude Heiland-Allen claudiusmaximus@goto10.org:

Solen Music wrote:

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Hi i'm looking for an object that I can read in a text file and bang it so that it outputs each consecutive character/letter in the file.

i.e. bang the object it ouputs the first letter bang the object outputs the second letter etc.

Does such a thing exist??

Yes [1]. But it would probably be far easier/more productive/more efficient to use a scripting engine for such tasks, for example pdlua for Lua or py/pyext for Python or something else (because then the string manipulation can take place without polluting Pd's symbol table).

Claude

[1] I started then abandoned development of a Pd<->POSIX bridge once upon a time. It can do what you describe, for example this file has a subpatch that streams a file as a sequence of bytes (driven by [until] but you could use another driver):

https://code.goto10.org/svn/maximus/2007/posix/examples/load8svx.pd

You'd then have to parse the bytes into characters according to whichever charset you use (eg, UTF-8 is more complicated than ASCII..).

-- http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org