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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to read text from textfiles in pd and
display sentences with the text object in gem. However, I am having a few
problems. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm reading sentences with textefile, which works
well. I read lines in the textfile one by one, which I want to send as lists to
the text3d object. What comes out of the textfile object is something
like:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"list the dog is asleep"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>which I need to convert to:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"text the dog is asleep"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How do I do that in pd?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Two corollary questions:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) is there an escape character that can be used in
the message object, or otherwise a way to store the "space" character in a text
object as a list element?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) is there a way to count the number of elements
in a list?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- martin</FONT></DIV>
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