CGTalk - Reading Text file

mtompson

12-13-2009, 01:55 PM

Hi All
I'm trying to read individual lines from a .txt file, my script is:

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f = openfile "C:\\GeoTime.txt"

while not eof f do

(

inputData = filterstring (readLine f) ","

)

close f

print "Line = "+inputData[1]

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My .txt file reads:

Holocene
0
0.01

But when I run my script it prints '0.01' , I expected 'Holocene' for inputData[1]..

I expect:

inputData[1] = Holocene
inputData[2] = 0
inputData[3] = 0.01

any ideas?

Many thanks

PS Sorry if I posted this twice, computer acting funny!

SyncViewS

12-13-2009, 02:10 PM

Hi Mark,
If you want to read file lines from a file and store each line as string in an array, you first need to define the Array, then you can reach each line and append it to the array.

FilterString is not needed unless you need to split each line in tokens defined by the chars sequence.

Following code returns the results you expected.

(
local inputData = #()
local f = openfile "C:\\GeoTime.txt"

while (not eof f) do
(
append inputData (readLine f)
)

close f

for i = 1 to inputData.count do
format "inputData[%]: %\n" i inputData[i]
)

- Enrico

mtompson

12-13-2009, 03:56 PM

Thanks Enrico, thats got it... :)

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