FIXED: Filet Read DAT to include server paths

It would be great if the File DAT or whatever the operator is called that reads in Tables
could also support a path on an extrenal server using http://

WOW! The future is here.
Thanks for such a quick turnaround.

This is what I’ve done:

  1. I made a bunch of DAT tables in Touch. they contain rgb values for color palettes
  2. I uploaded them to my website: seedrobotics.com/seed/dat_colortables

(turns up blank since the web page is blank yet the files are all there. i checked with
an ftp client).

the files are called pentacolor.0.dat through pentacolor.80.dat

I want to access them with the Web DAT.

How should I set up my files on the web so Web DAT can read them?

It would be great if the Web DAT had a similar function as the “$N” in other File Read/write Touch operators.

Ps- I did get the Web DAT to work with html code directly - excellent!

I found a tab-delimited ASCII file that lists contact details of all of the people in the U.S. Congress

Simply plug this in to a Web DAT URL path
and click on “Fetch”

visi.com/juan/congress/downl … ess.db.txt

pipe the result into a Convert DAT and you should get an idea of what is possible.
I attached the project file.

Due to my lack of really understanding the evaluate DAT, how would i quickly go about separating
democrats from republicans in this example? thanks
congress.toe (23.4 KB)

Evaluate DAT with output type Expressions, and the following 2 cell table as your second input

ifs(strcmp(tab(opinput(“.”,0),$R,$C+1),“D”), “-”, $V) $V

then delete the entries with - in it. a bit cumbersome though. maybe we need a delete DAT that
will delete by values?

Selina