[PD] textfile

[Ian Smith-Heisters]

Ik wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a way to store 100+ messages in preferably a text 
> file, and be able to read just one of them, something like by reading 
> out the linenumber or a preceding number ( so it would be an array, 
> but containing text.). I have looked at qlist and textfile, but that's 
> not wat I need I think - but I havent'  found anything else in the 
> reference that did something with text...
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I would recommend one of the scripting objects. I know there's one for 
python, and there may be one for ruby and/or perl. I think there's also 
a shell object, so you could do "grep textfile 42" to have it print any 
line in textfile with a 42 in it.

hope that helps.

-Ian