[PD] forcing array size based on text file size
Fede
camarafede at gmail.com
Fri Apr 6 16:36:43 CEST 2018
Hi Jack,
Well, yes, it was something ‘like’ that.
here it is with the missing [t b p] and [text size -s text t]
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On Apr 6, 2018, at 4:21 PM, Jack <jack at rybn.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Le 06/04/2018 à 10:55, Fede a écrit :
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> Like [soundfiler]’s “-resize” flag, this would be a very useful feature for array loading.
>>
>>
>> You can load a text file and then query its size, something like:
>>
>> [read -c your_file, bang(
>> |
>> [text]
>> |\
>> [text size]
>> |
>> [array size your_array]
>
> Hmm, not sure this patch will work fine.
> Did you try it ?
>
> Jim, What do you want to store in the array. That doesn't seem entirely
> clear to me ? Do you need to store each character ? [array]s, in Pd,
> only store floats. So you will be able to store each character as its
> decimal ASCII representation (or maybe better to use Unicode here) in
> the array. For instance, "A" will be 65.
> ++
>
> Jack
>
>
>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> fede
>>
>> On Apr 6, 2018, at 10:38 AM, Jim Ruxton <jim.ruxton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am reading a text file into an array. I would have expected the array size to grow to the same as the number of lines/elements in the text file but it seems to default to a size of 100. Is there a way for the size of the array to take on the size of the text file automatically? If not how do I get the number of lines in the text file so I can resize the array accordingly?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
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