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MarleyFan YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Import list of float values from file? Apr 30^th, 2008, 5:05am Does anyone have an idea how to import a list of Float values from a text file into a processing array? Thank You!

eskimoblood

Re: Import list of float values from file?
Reply #1 - Apr 30^th, 2008, 9:11am

Take a look at the loadStrings method(http://processing.org/reference/loadStrings_.html). If your values come line by line you can use the example from loadStrings and convert every line into floats using float(). Otherwise all your values are in one line and separated by comma, space or something else, you have to split the line (http://processing.org/reference/split_.html) and then convert the result array items into floats.

Andreas Köberle {eskimoblood}

MarleyFan

Re: Import list of float values from file?
Reply #2 - May 1^st, 2008, 12:59am

Thank you for your response.

The problem is when I implement the loadStrings() function, it feeds 9 lines of code, for three strings. Is there a way to import only the actual text?

Ex:

Heres an example of what the text file (*.rtf) looks like:

222
333
434

Here is what loadString() returns:

[0] "{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949\cocoasubrtf270"
[1] "{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}"
[2] "{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}"
[3] "\margl1440\margr1440\vieww9000\viewh8400\viewkind0"
[4] "\pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx79
20\tx8640\ql\qnatural\pardirnatural"
[5] ""
[6] "\f0\fs24 \cf0 222\"
[7] "333\"
[8] "434}"

The values are shot out in lines 6, 7, 8.

I would then use parseFloat() on the string array to turn it into an array of floats.

Any suggestions to use loadStrings() to import an array of only the actual text seen in the import file?

JohnG Ex Member	Re: Import list of float values from file? Reply #3 - May 1^st, 2008, 9:34am You need to save your RTF file as a plain old txt file. RTF has lots of extra junk in it that's not necessary for a simple data file.

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