Reading In text file.

[Mercenary85]

How do i go about "not" reading the parenthesis parts??

You don't need to "not" read the parenthesis. If some file contains something like this:

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(1 2 3 4 5)

then you open that file using with-open-file and you call read directly on the file, the value returned is the list (1 2 3 4 5). You don't even need to create a loop to read the list.

Your Professor put the parenthesis in the file to make it simpler to read it

oh haah! fancy that.
welp I got it working. thanks a ton to everyone. especially you gugamilare!

The Assignment was actually a type of averaging/mathmatical stuff on lists, but it was just the readin part i was confused with thanks a ton