The internal parsing that IXIX's code is doing is tied specifically to sliders and ignores non numbers, and con only read a single variable.
however, you could do
and manipulate it mathematically to parse the variables.
so you'd have to use a text editor to convert " - " into "."
You can use file_string(handle,str) to get the text, however, this only reads the first line - it should be able to do newlines, might be some encoding issue, might be a bug. will AskJF.
*asked justin and the great oracle answered
see post #11