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i'm a student and this semester for an academic project, i must use 

max msp in order to read 2 separate text files with letters... i've 

made a patch that reads lines sequencially, yet the list is a sequence 

of genomes (C,G,T,A letters) and the format is in a few letters per 

line. i could make it work, yet i would spend weeks formatting the text 

my question is if there is a method to read letter by letter from an 

external text file, and read a letter every 3 seconds.. this i know it 

can be controled with a metro, yet i don't work well with lists or 

i hope someone can help me out sorting this problem out.

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  i'm a student and this semester for an academic project, i must use 
max msp in order to read 2 separate text files with letters... i've 
made a patch that reads lines sequencially, yet the list is a sequence 
of genomes (C,G,T,A letters) and the format is in a few letters per 
line. i could make it work, yet i would spend weeks formatting the text 
in order to have a letter per line.
  my question is if there is a method to read letter by letter from an 
external text file, and read a letter every 3 seconds.. this i know it 
can be controled with a metro, yet i don't work well with lists or 
external files.

 i hope someone can help me out sorting this problem out.

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Hey, havent tried this myself, but you will probably find something that would good for the job in the L-objects (you should be able to find these on maxobjects.com.

Hey, havent tried this myself, but you will probably find something that would good for the job in the L-objects (you should be able to find these on maxobjects.com.
Hope they help
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Try this. It needs Peter Elsea's Lobjects, and probably needs some 

Try this.  It needs Peter Elsea's Lobjects, and probably needs some  
cleaning up, but you'll get the idea.

This patch you made works perfectly, yet the first line is repeated 

twice... i've tried to add a minimum cont value of 1 to the counter 

object, changed the start to 1 yet, it keeps repeating the first line.

is there a way to bypass this repetition?

This patch you made works perfectly, yet the first line is repeated 
twice... i've tried to add a minimum cont value of 1 to the counter 
object, changed the start to 1 yet, it keeps repeating the first line.
is there a way to bypass this repetition?


reading text files