It works here. I have test.txt containing

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

...
f1 0 0 23 "test.txt"
...

Csound runs and prints

SECTION 1:
ftable 1:
10 elements in test.txt


Victor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Van Peteghem" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:54 PM
Subject: [Csnd] Deferred size not possible with GEN23?


> Hi,
>
> Now I ran into another problem with GEN23: the documentation says that if 
> the specified size is 0, the size is determined by the number of values in 
> the textfile. This would make what I want to do a lot easier, but when I 
> try it, I get the error "deferred-size ftable 1.000000 illegal here".
>
> I've had the same problem with GEN01, but then I could solve the problem 
> by first determining the size with the filelen opcode. I don't know of a 
> similar workaround for GEN23.
>
> -- 
>  Mark
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