Derek Holzer wrote: > Did you use [col] to create the textfile? Or is it a random textfile? > Formatting is important. A sample: > > 1, ah_yes.wav; > 2, hokoji.loop.wav; > 3, kenchoji.loop.wav; > > Maybe try to format it in this way?
Or if it's plain text, use "read file.txt" (for ';'-terminated messages) or "read cr file.txt" (for one message per line) and [textfile]. Then output one at a time with "rewind" and "bang", iirc. However, if you need random access, then indeed [textfile] is insufficient and/or inefficient. Hope this helps, Claude > > d. > > 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 -- http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
