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1. Another max script problem - array & external file

   

   Topic by eddybrown · Nov 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Is it possible to populate an array with information from a text file. The info in the text file would just be numbers on different lines. I've no idea how to do this, any help would be appreciated :)

2. Re: Another max script problem - array & external file

   

   Reply by r_fletch_r · Nov 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   should be or you could do it this way "for x in y do" only works on arrays, your giving it an integer (listarray.count). for large data sets use the second method as its much faster.

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   Reply by eddybrown · Nov 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks thats just what I was looking for cheers!

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   Reply by cw · Nov 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   yes. look in documentation for "FileStream Values" make a function to do this, quite easy. open the file, read each line, if it is ints you want convert the string to int and bingo. good luck!

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   Reply by r_fletch_r · Nov 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   very welcome :) good luck with the script.

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   Reply by eddybrown · Nov 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks for explaining that. The 2nd method you suggest works brilliantly. Thanks. :thumbup:

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   Reply by eddybrown · Nov 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks for your help earlier, I've got this so far: fn getNumbers =( local listArray = #() fileS = openFile "C:\\numbers.txt" mode:"r" while not eof fileS do ( lineInfo = readLine fileS append listArray lineInfo ) close fileS for i in listArray.count do ( print i )) My only problem is that my last for loop doesn't work. If…