Read from text file and input to address

[iosufdhgd]

Looking for a script that reads from a text file, and inputs each line in said text file to a certain address every second or so. Does anything know how to do that?

[LeFiXER]

You want to read a file every second?

[iosufdhgd]

You want to read a file every second?

same file, just a new line. also, yeah, new line every second would be optimal

[LeFiXER]

You could get the linecount of the file and iterate through the file based on the linecount then update the address according to the position of the loop.

[Yoq209]

You could get the linecount of the file and iterate through the file based on the linecount then update the address according to the position of the loop.

Could you possibly make an example script doing this? I want to apply values from text in a txt.

[LeFiXER]

Could you possibly make an example script doing this? I want to apply values from text in a txt.

It's a relatively trivial task to loop through a file and output the results, nevertheless, I have written a function and provided code on how you can store the data of each line in a table, iterate over that table, and then print the results to the output window:

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function readFile(filename)
  local lines = {}
  -- if file doesn't exist then just return nil because we don't want to proceed
  if filename == nil then return end
  -- open a handle to the file
  local file = io.open(filename)

  -- loop through the file line-by-line
  for line in file:lines() do
      -- Insert the line into the table
      table.insert(lines, line)
  end
  -- close the handle to the file
  file:close()
  return lines
end

-- Initialise a table and store the result of the function as its data
local file_table = readFile('C:\\data.txt')

-- loop through the table and print to Output window
for k,v in pairs(file_table) do
    if v ~= nil then
       print(v)
    end
end