Text file input to gdl

[Anonymous]

Can any one help me with text file input into a GDL program.

I have a text file with one letter in it and that file is sitting in the Arhicad Data Folder. I want to read that one letter and have it as a variable in my GDL program. I have been going round and round in circles by trying to follow information in the GDL help. Thank you in advance for any help.

Archicad V11

[Anonymous]

Look in the GDL manual for the Text I/O functions. It is toward the end since it is an add-on/extension and not a core part of GDL. The manual can be a bit cryptic at times but it does list all the file handling procedures, commands, etc.

[Laszlo Nagy]

You should also check the other possibilities: one is DATA I/O and I think there is also an XML ability. Maybe that would serve you purpose better.

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Just put this in the master script;

ch1=OPEN("TEXT","Mytextfile.txt","SEPARATOR='\t',MODE=RO")
n=INPUT(ch1,1,1,value01, value02, value03, value04, value05)
CLOSE (ch1)



...so it reads a file named "Mytextfile.txt" from your Archicad Data folder.
This example takes in five values from the first row, starting from the first value.
'\t' means that values are separated with a tab which means the same as an Excel file
saved as a 'Tab separated text'.

Hope this helps.