[PD] regular expressions (symbol splitting)

[Tom Schouten]

hi list,

i was wondering if there is a way to evaluate regular expressions on a 
symbol in pd.

what i want to do is split a composite symbol, i.e:

"this-is-my-symbol"

into parts

"this",  "is",  "my",  "symbol"

it would be nice to have a full perl style regexp extern, but for my 
application it suffices to split a symbol into two parts at the first 
occurance of some separator character, i.e "-"

maybe somebody already implemented this?

tom