How to add a manual data list to Populate Geometry

Hi all, I am a n00b to Grasshopper and the insertion of my own data points has me stumped. How do I insert a manual list into Populate Geometry?

I have a table of data to play with, and I want to see what shape I can get from deforming a sphere using some or all of the data. I have a set of 9 rows and 4 columns.

So far all I am trying to do is map column 1 as the deformed points.

Col 1

3.76
6.94
3.67
5.13
5.76
6.5
8.45
1.7
2.45

So far I've tried Number, Points List, Point, Value... and I am clearly lost somehow.

Thanks in advance!

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on July 3, 2016 at 9:03am

Be sure to right-click the 'Panel' components containing your data and set 'Multiline Data'. Or read directly from a .csv file. The 'C' input to 'Split' is set to a comma (",").

There are many ways to handle .csv data, including plugins, but I like to keep things simple.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on July 3, 2016 at 9:14am

P.S. To get column 1 (actually column 0) as a list, do the following - the 'i' input to 'Item (List Item)' is the column number, zero-based. Note that its output is 'Flattened'.

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