[PD] String formating -> something like makefilename, /makesymbol/prepend

Thomas Grill t.grill at gmx.net
Mon Nov 25 16:22:10 CET 2002


>Best solution would be something like printf which
>replaces a placeholder with incoming data:
>
>pack 0 10
> |
>foo "open ../../db/%s/%s"
>fine if it can only do strings... I looked in the
>pdb without luck, any suggestions?


> I would like to have a full regex engine but haven't spent any time on a
> regex external yet. (Though i found out how to abuse the pd scheduler as
> state engine for regex backtracking.)

Hi, 
you could also use the python external for this, although it might be a
waste of resources if you need solely this functionality.

greetings,
Thomas






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