Awesome! I must have missed that in the non-existent help file i had to search the internet for.... :)

also i was a little confused because the help file i found uses [when( in the comments and [where( as a message...

all is good though!! so thanks for this marius!

[end, where( actually only gave me a "bang" message from the second outlet but what worked for me was [end, skip -1, where(

thanks again!

cheers mark --- marius schebella marius.schebella@gmail.com wrote:

with msgfile, you should be able to send [end, where( to the messagefile, which first jumps to the end end then tells you the current position (line number). the first line is 0, so you have to add 1 to the number to get the number of lines. marius.

mark edward grimm wrote:

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Hello,

Maybe I am missing something. I want to print the number of lines in a text file loaded into

'msgfile'

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OR equivalent object. The object seems to do everything but that!! Am i missing something right

in

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front of me? I just need to know the number of

lines

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in a text file that i load...

Thanks!!!

BTW 'msgfile-help.pd' is missing in my pd-extended recent auto-build...

cheers mark

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