text as input- how to analyze text

Hi,

I would like to take a text document that continuously being updated and stream it live to grasshopper. I would like to compare the incoming words to a list of predefined words and find out if there is a match.

I managed to read the data into grasshopper (see screenshot), but I am not sure how to now separate the words and compare them to a list.

I would greatly appreciate any advise regarding textual interpretation in grasshopper!

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Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on November 16, 2014 at 5:32am

Hello

you could try the following

it uses text split component and the separator is one space. then you can test for one or more words and find if there are in the text with text match, resulting in true or false, or test if the words is in the text, at what index in the list it is, with member index component. the rest has to do with what data structure you want to have.

cheers

alex

Permalink Reply by Bika on November 16, 2014 at 4:35pm

Hi Alex,

thank you, that is exactly what I needed. Since you seem to know about text input- have you ever tried streaming live text into grasshopper?
At the moment the only way to update the definition is to manually save the document each time. I was wondering if there is a way one could type into a document and it would automatically update in grasshopper.

Thanks again!!

Bika

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on November 16, 2014 at 5:43pm