you need to send it a bang after the read message.
J
On Jun 29, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Tyler Worman via Pd-list <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi - 
>    Fairly new to PD. Trying to read a text file and [textfile] doesn't seem 
> to be doing anything. Read doesn't error when I have a valid file name. 
> textfile never bangs from the right output so I'm not even sure it is doing 
> anything. The left output won't seem to do anything. I've tried to attach 
> print, but got no output. Tried unpack then print but no output.
> 
> Many of the examples I've found online don't seem to be working for me. I 
> can't produce any output from it. My goal is to read in a file with 1 number. 
> I want to use that number as a variable to control which part of the patch 
> runs.
> 
> ()
> |
> [read somefile.txt(
> |
> [textfile]
> |          |
> [print]   [bang]
> 
> What am I doing wrong? How do I go about debugging it? I get nothing to the 
> output.
> 
>    - Tyler
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