Using arduino to read data from a textfile?

Anyone know how to use arduino to read data from an excel or .txt file?
I need to read in some data and based on the data perform some operations. The data is a set of x,y co-ordinates.

You will need a proxy running at your computer that will recieve a command from arduino, and returns the contents of the text file.

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