how do i print a specific line from a coll?
I can't seem to figure this out. It's been a long time since I've used Max; I'm probably missing something that would have been obvious to me six months ago. Anyway:
I have a text file with several lines of text, broken up by line. (1, bob; 2, ed; etc.)
When I read the file, it prints all of the lines at once; I don't want it to do that. I would like to load the file and then print a specific line only when a bang is pressed. (i.e. nth 1 2, i think?)
What am I missing from this equation? Thank you in advance for anyone who can help me out!
Hi,
to read a specific line (let's say line 2 for example), you can either send 2 to the coll, or send "goto 2" followed by a bang. (You may have a deeper look at the help file)
oh! i didnt realize the coll was the text file! thank you!
I have another question to this... This one seems a bit more difficult and I didn't realize it would be, but here goes:
I want to take a large chunk of text and automatically line break it after every 5 words (or some number like that). Then, I would like to add "1," "2," "3," etc. sequentially before each line. Then, i would like to add a ";" after each line. Does anyone know an easy way to do that? (Using perhaps Word, Excel, Max/Msp/Jitter or something like that)?
Basically, I'm trying to make a maxpatch that will create spam text poetry! I have compiled a lot of "spam text", but it's all in big paragraphs. That won't work too well. I wish I could remember how to do this stuff, but hopefully someone can help me out on this. Thanks again!!!
Something like this?
oh, that's perfect! I was up all night trying to figure this out. Thank you both very much!