[PD] way round commas,;?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 13, 2006, at 3:57 PM, oliver wrote:

>
>> timon botez wrote:
>>> Hi, Im  using qlist and gem to do some visual typographic stuff.   
>>> Encountering problems with textfiles containing [,]commas, [;]  
>>> semicolon, [\]backslash.  Whats the best way of overcoming this  
>>> problem?
>>>
>
> another not so beautiful but working method (on XP):
>
> define an environment variable in your startup script.
> just type a line like this:
>
> set BSL=\
>
> you can now call this environment variable by typing %BSL% in any  
> pd-message, where internally it will be replaced by good old \.
>
> hope this helps

I couldn't get that to work, and its surprising to me that it would.

Could you send an example patch?

.hc

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