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martin.peach at sympatico.ca martin.peach at sympatico.ca
Thu Feb 8 23:16:55 CET 2007


> > However, I think an escaping mecanism (at least for $'s in messages)
> > would indeed be vital.
> > WHENEVER a special character exists, an escape character should exist,
> > just in case.
> 
> yeah, i agree, some escaping mechanism would make a lot things much
> easier in pd.

The string object should allow you to do that; you would just replace the $ character with its ASCII code 36, then convert the string to a symbol when needed.

Martin





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