[PD] database-like stuff in pd

[zmoelnig at iem.at]

Quoting Damian Stewart <damian at frey.co.nz>:

> i want to do something like the following:
>
> - load up a whole bunch of samples (or floats, or symbols)
> - group the samples (or floats, or symbols) by tagging them
> - be able to call up any sample/float/symbol with a particular tag, 
> possibly randomly.
>
> i'm thinking something along the lines of a database object, which i 
> could send messages of the form eg [add <key> <value>( to store 
> values tagged with a particular key; then i could have another 
> instance of the database object which i could hit with messages eg 
> [findfirst <key>( or [findrandom <key>( to spit out a <value> with 
> the matching <key>
>
> does something like this already exist?

there is [index] in zexy, which seems to be similar to what you want.

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IOhannes

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