<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 15:38, Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca">matju@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Le 2011-11-04 à 08:56:00, Roman Haefeli a écrit :<div class="im"><br>
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You said "(as it is like with any string-splitter outside of pd/max)". I should have said it more precisely: It doesn't make sense to compare Pd/Max with anything outside of Pd/Max regarding string-splitting, because 'just' splitting symbols (without the implicit conversion to float for number-like symbols) is not very practical in the Pd/World.<br>
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How do you know that it isn't practical to have numeric symbols when splitting ?<br>
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If I read /etc/passwd (list of users on Linux&OSX) and I split at colons and commas to get phone numbers, do you think I want Pd's help at rounding a phone number from 383.3801 to 383.38 when converting (aller-retour) from symbol to float to symbol, because it had too many significant digits for Pd's taste ?<br>
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So, just call me at 383.38 because it's more practical than dialling 383.3801 ! ;)<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div class="h5"> <br>Ultimately, who would dare to call James Bond "Agent 7"?<br>
<br>András<br>
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