Sweet! That is perfect. I'll use all of it (the streamreader object & logic, and likely 7-zip) again and again. Thanks so much!
On Dec 21, 5:45 am, visose <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, it's pretty impressive that someone experimenting with beta > plugins for CAD software package has never come across a .rar file > (has nothing to do with being dumb, though). It's used for data > compression, it contains compressed files similar to a .zip file. You > need some software to extract the compressed files. The most popular > is Winrar (http://www.rarlab.com/) but there are free alternatives > like 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/). > > On Dec 21, 2:44 am, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm so sorry...for some reason, my Grasshopper isn't reading the > > file...I download it, but it's a .rar file...I'm not familiar with > > this type. Am I missing something? I apologize for coming off so > > dumb here... > > > On Dec 20, 2:18 pm, visose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't think you can read excel yet, but I'm not sure. About bringing > > > numeric data from an outside source, i did it using a text file in > > > this example:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7xFA-5YZc > > > Here's the > > > definition:http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/gh_audio.rar > > > It reads a text file that contains a list of numbers representing the > > > values of a sound wave and generates geometry with them. > > > > On Dec 20, 7:12 pm, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This is great...I have a question on this...is there any way to bring > > > > data in from Excel in a similar fashion? I have tried bringing > > > > numeric data from the outside using the text component, but have > > > > trouble converting it such that GH recognizes it as a number. Any > > > > help?
