Thanks Andreas...
>I copied your code and pasted it in Director. It works. Are you sure
>that "SymbolsData.txt" is a simple text file? Are you sure it's
>correctly named?
I got all the file name typed correctly and have no typo in my script...
Still doesn't work... yet it works just fine with your machine... It
probably will be the ghost of my abandoned XT, maybe???
>It does all the above. Try typing:
>put xtra("fileIO").interface()
>and RETURN key in the message window.
Thanks for the info on interface(), I really needed it... :)
>I would probably read in the whole file in one chunk. You will get a
>string, which you can do find & replace in to replace delimiting
>chars with blank space, and then you can convert it to a list.
I'll give it a go, and see how this thing comes up...
Have a nice day!!!
Jason
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