<div dir="ltr">Ah fantastic, that's exactly what I need. fudi looks like the route, and the dev link was helpful too. Wasn't sure what list to put it on, but I actually needed both the patcher and dev answer, so thanks for sending both!<div><br></div><div>iain<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 5:28 PM Lucas Cordiviola <<a href="mailto:lucarda27@hotmail.com">lucarda27@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Oops Iain, I thought this was on the Pd-Dev list :)<br>
<br>
you can do:<br>
<br>
[(out 0 :foobar)( // <-- message object<br>
|<br>
[fudiformat -u]<br>
|<br>
[list tosymbol]<br>
|</p>
<p><br>
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<p>--<br>
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<div>On 4/13/2021 8:47 PM, Lucas Cordiviola
wrote:<br>
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<p>May be this lines gives you lots of clues:</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/8743db3597c371a9491740ac3cbff0eababdd212/src/x_misc.c#L793" target="_blank">https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/8743db3597c371a9491740ac3cbff0eababdd212/src/x_misc.c#L793</a></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>PS: I'm on my second Pd external and found the binbuf thing
very useful. </p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>:)<br>
</p>
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<div>On 4/13/2021 7:56 PM, Iain Duncan
wrote:<br>
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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
<div><br>
</div>
<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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