[PD] displaying long text in GEM

[Patrice Colet]

Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Patrice Colet wrote:
> 
>>  In relation with that topic, anyone has ever made a kind of 'text to
>> ascii decimal number' converter?
> 
> There is plenty of that already in the pd-list archives.
> 
> The trick is that you divide the number by 10, write the remainder (le 
> reste de la division) plus 48, then if the main result of the division 
> is nonzero, write it to the left of the digit that you just wrote.

  That works greatly for numbers from 0 to 9 obviously, but not for 
other glyphs than numbers, I might have not been clear enough in the 
question.
The [any2string] external is doing exactly the job I want, it even work 
with special characters.