# Reading my excel data in Processing

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You can export/ save as in Excel.

Save as csv text file

This file you can copy into your Sketch folder.

Then loadStrings or loadTable

> [@Can't form array using splitText method (loadStrings)](https://discourse.processing.org/t/cant-form-array-using-splittext-method-loadstrings/28092):
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> I’m trying to get text elements from a local text file into an array. pets.txt contains cat dog Hopefully this code explains the problem. Thanks for looking! var pets; var petArray = []; function preload() { . . . pets = loadStrings("pets.txt"); petArray = pets.splitText(','); } function draw() { . . . fill(0); textSize(20); text(pets,60,height-10); //prints… cat,dog text(“X” + petArray[1],160,height-10); //prints… Xundefined }

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