[PD] processing text
cgc at humboldtblvd.com
cgc at humboldtblvd.com
Wed Nov 12 18:47:39 CET 2003
Quoting Martin Dupras <martin.dupras at uwe.ac.uk>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to read text from textfiles in pd and display sentences with
> the text object in gem. However, I am having a few problems.
>
> I'm reading sentences with textefile, which works well. I read lines in
> the textfile one by one, which I want to send as lists to the text3d
> object. What comes out of the textfile object is something like:
>
> "list the dog is asleep"
>
> which I need to convert to:
>
> "text the dog is asleep"
>
> How do I do that in pd?
>
You can try the IEMlib prepend object and do a [prepend text]. There are Linux
source and binaries on the iem site. Also, there is an OSX binary from Adam
Lindsay (sorry I don't have the link handy), and there may be a Win32 binary
floating out there somewhere... Now you have to remove the first 'list' part,
which might be possible to do using the select object.
Hope this helps a bit.
cgc
> Two corollary questions:
>
> 1) is there an escape character that can be used in the message object,
> or otherwise a way to store the "space" character in a text object as a
> list element?
>
> 2) is there a way to count the number of elements in a list?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - martin
>
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