[PD] find a list of numbers in a text file

[Miller Puckette]

HI Alex --

Have you tried sending textfile an "open [my-filename] cr" message?  The
"cr" flag asks to interpret newlines as end-of-list.

cheers
Miller

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:51:17PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> Back in the end of my masters, I did make something that allows you to load
> scales from the Scala software into Pd, which has a database of over 4000
> scales.
> 
> Check the software and data bank here http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
> 
> It's an extremely powerful tool for microtonality, but you may not care for
> that and just want to use the scale data bank in Pd.
> 
> Anyway, I have a way that exports the  from the Scala software into a text
> file that opens in this specific subpatch of mine.
> 
> But I was trying to do something easier, and that is just load these *.scl
> files into [textfile] or [msgfile] for example, and extracting the list of
> these scale intervals in cents.
> 
> Here's what one of these files look like
> 
> 
> ==============
> 
> ! 08-11.scl
> !
> 8 out of 11-tET
>  8
> !
>  218.18182
>  327.27273
>  436.36364
>  654.54545
>  763.63636
>  872.72727
>  1090.90909
>  2/1
> 
> 
> ===============
> 
> So I assumed it'd be easy to extract each cents value and make a list out of
> it, but I was wrong. Don't know why but it doesn't load this in separate
> lines, maybe because it is not a *.txt file at all.
> 
> And anyway, I'm getting in Pd just a list, so the above file, for example,
> file becomes
> 
> 
> list ! 08-11.scl ! 8 out of 11-tET 8 ! 218.182 327.273 436.364 654.545
> 763.636 872.727 1090.91 2/1
> 
> 
> I seem to have found a messy way to get the list out of it, but maybe you
> people know of something really simple and elegant with some extended
> objects.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Alex

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