[PD] is there a way to get symbol length?

[Matt Barber]

Here's a vanilla approach using the .n sprintf function of
makefilename.  Not completely tested...

Matt


> On Nov 10, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 15:26 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
>>> title says it all. Any external capable of doing this (other than
>>> resorting to something like a pyext)?
>>>
>>> Ico
>>
>> [symbol yoursymbol(
>> |
>> |          [loadbang]
>> |          |
>> |          [symbol( <- empty symbol
>> |          |
>> [symbol2list] <- from  zexy
>> |
>> [list length]
>>
>> though, i haven't checked, if this approach still works, when the
>> incoming symbol contains spaces (or other 'special' characters).
>>
>> roman
>
>
> That would make a nice object, like [symbollength].
>
> .hc
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