Hi,
Total newbie to illustrator scripting here.
I have an tab delimited output file from another program that looks something like this:
MatchS MatchM

position and length are numeric fields, and in the real file will not have angle brackets. Like this:

CTGF E2F1 -325 8
TGFB NLK -466 9

I would like to get illustrator to draw lines all of a uniform length and then place a shape on that line at a position relative to the position field and the width of the shape determined by the length. All this I can do if I specify the points and stuff directly in the script no problem.

I haven't a clue where to start with file reading for javascript.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks for your time,
Davy