Implementing firmware version

I don't think that helps me because I have to send the version number (inside the .txt file which is always going to be inside the project's file) to a 16 bit output in my VHDL code:

data_rev: out std_logic_vector(15 downto 0)

And each 8 bits of it is 1 number, so say I have a version = 14.10, after converting to binary my output will be:

data_rev(15 downto 8) <= 0000 1110 -- 14

data_rev(7 downto 0) <= 0000 1010 -- 10

And that's why I need to get each number into their own variable. The format of my .txt file can be:

1410

or

14
10

Or even some other way that makes it easy to get each 2-digit number into 2 variables (maybe separate the 2 numbers with space).

I looked for ways of reading line by line, but I don't know how to separate each number into variable a and b.

Here's some examples I found, but they use 1 variable:

1)
set in 
set lineNumber 0
while { >= 0} {
    puts ": $line"
}
close $in
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2)
set fp 
set file_data 
close $fp
set data 
     foreach line $data {
          #do something here to set the a and b values maybe?
     }
------Could it set index 0 to variable a and index 1 to variable b?--------
3)
set fid             ;# Open file for read-only access
    set fields        ;# Split the string into a list
while {  != -1 } {  #  Just print out the first field
    puts             ;# Extract item at index 0
}

I would set those 2 variables from the .txt into 2 generics:

GENERIC(
		version: integer := 1;     -- a
                revision: integer := 0;    -- b
	);

For that I'd then use in the script:

set_parameter -name VERSION   $a
set_parameter -name REVISION  $b

Question: can I put set_parameter directly in my version.tcl or it's only in the .qsf?

So now my question remains, how do I treat those 2 numbers separately...

Note: The .txt file is manually editted so I'm not treating it at all only reading it with TCL.