read text file from hard drive

Using Arduino Storage
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Hi

any ideas on how to read specific line in a text file from my hard drive. my text file produced from another application look like this.

%YAML:1.0
test: 0

I am interested in reading the zero in the second line only and activate a switch based on the number read.

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What Arduino are you using?

I would have thought that the only one you could attach a hard drive to would be a Yun running under Linux.

3

any ideas on how to read specific line in a text file from my hard drive

Are you aware that your USB port is a SLAVE port and not a HOST ?

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i meant from my PC .. i am using a mega board.

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You can not do anything on your PC with an arduino but send it data on the serial port. So if you want to do anything on the PC then there must be a program running on it that receives this data, takes the appropriate action and returns information to the Arduino.

So basically no the arduino can not command this to happen directly on a PC but can command a helper program to do it. Often this program can be easily written in the language Processing which is free and multi-platform and looks very similar to the Arduino IDE, mainly because that share the same root source code.