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<p>May be this lines gives you lots of clues:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/8743db3597c371a9491740ac3cbff0eababdd212/src/x_misc.c#L793">https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/8743db3597c371a9491740ac3cbff0eababdd212/src/x_misc.c#L793</a></p>
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<p>PS: I'm on my second Pd external and found the binbuf thing very
useful. </p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas.</pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/13/2021 7:56 PM, Iain Duncan
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<div dir="ltr">Hi folks, I'm trying to figure out how to have a
bunch of text, with spacces, get treated as one symbol so that
an external can work with it as one thing. In Max, I did this by
using the tosymbol object, and then creating a message that was
'eval-string "(all my text as one string here)"'. Is there a Pd
idiom for doing something similar that I should follow? Use
cases are
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<div>a) someone enters code in a message box: '(out 0 :foobar)'</div>
<div>b) code is received as a long string over osc or other
network, and needs to be sent to the external</div>
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<div>Apologies at the Pd ignorance, still trying to figure all
this out while!</div>
<div>iain</div>
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