Hi,

I am new to programming and processing. I am trying to parse a .txt file that contains names. The code is running but only one of the names from the "respondents" string is being displayed as text. Println() returns all of the names but text() only displays the last name in the string. I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. Please help me and thank you.

code:

PFont font;
String data[];
String respondents;
int start;
int end;


void setup() {
 size(500,500);
 background(0, 70, 120);
 font = createFont("Serif", 24, true);
 data = loadStrings("c_p_c.txt");
 for(int i=0; i<data.length; i++) {
   start = data[i].indexOf("'") + 1;
   end = data[i].indexOf("'", start);
   respondents = data[i].substring(start, end);
   println(respondents);
 }

}

void draw() {
 textFont(font);
 text(respondents, 30, 60);
 
}

Thank you fjen. I think I may have figured it out. When the 'respondents' string is called outside of the for-loop only the last substring is recognized. I moved text() inside of the for-loop in void setup(). Is that what you were hinting at?

code:

PFont font;
String data[];
String respondents;
int start;
int end;

void setup() {
 size(1100, 600);
 background(0, 70, 120);
 font = createFont("Serif", 18, true);
 data = loadStrings("c_p_c.txt");
 for(int i = 0; i<data.length; i++) {
   start = data[i].indexOf("'") + 1;
   end = data[i].indexOf("'", start);
   respondents = data[i].substring(start, end);
   textFont(font);
   text(respondents, 65*i+12.5, 60);
 }
}

void draw() {    
}