Wesley Smith

does readfloat32 take care of parsing whitespace etc. for you? Or do

you have to seek to the first number in the text file and then call

Hi,
does readfloat32 take care of parsing whitespace etc. for you?  Or do
you have to seek to the first number in the text file and then call
that method?

readfloat32

Sounds like you'll want to use string's parseFloat() method or some 

other regexp based solution. readfloat32() is for reading binary 

floats from files (and in MaxMSP 4.5.7, only in platform native byte 

ordering, fixed in the next Max release).

Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Global_Functions:parseFloat

Sounds like you'll want to use string's parseFloat() method or some  
other regexp based solution. readfloat32() is for reading binary  
floats from files (and in MaxMSP 4.5.7, only in platform native byte  
ordering, fixed in the next Max release).

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ 
Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Global_Functions:parseFloat