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reading a file and publishing data to topic

asked 2016-03-01 14:13:20 -0600

anonymous user

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updated 2016-03-01 14:13:49 -0600

data in the file is of type int [ ] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}

Code for Node_1 is as follows:

#include<std_msgs/Int32MultiArray.h>
...
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  int temp;

  ros::init(argc, argv, "Node_1");

  ros::NodeHandle nh;

  ros::Publisher publisher = nh.advertise<std_msgs::Int32MultiArray>("Topic_1",1);

  std_msgs::Int32MultiArray vec;

  ifstream infile("array1.txt");

  while(infile >> temp)
    {
      ROS_INFO("Extracting the elements of the vector from file");
      vec.data.push_back(temp);
    }
  publisher.publish(vec);
  ros::spinOnce();

  return 0;
}

Executables are created when I compile (using catkin_make)

But when I run this node, the statement

"ROS_INFO("Extracting the elements of the vector from file");"

is not at all executed

What could probably be going wrong?

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answered 2016-03-02 01:12:29 -0600

mgruhler gravatar image

I'm guessing, you have the file in the wrong location. The file array1.txt needs to be in the directory where you execute rosrun <your_package> <your_node>, because this is set as the working directory of your executable.

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