[PD-dev] Re: Restructuring of CVS/externals

[Martin Peach]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

>On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>>But again, IO's hex loader patch works on filenames too, so well have to get
>>used to seeing "0x3c" in filenames, i.e. hertz-0x3Cmidi.pd = [hertz->midi].
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>Here's a demangling script for you:
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>  echo hertz-0x3Cmidi.pd | ruby -ne 'puts gsub(/0x(..)/){$1.hex.chr}'
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>which yields:
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>  hertz-<midi.pd
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>but chances are you wanted to say hertz-0x3Emidi.pd
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>also, in Perl:
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>  echo hertz-0x3Cmidi.pd | perl -ne 's/(0x..)/chr(eval $1)/ge;print'
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>This may be helpful whenever demangling is needed in scripts or makefiles.
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>A Tcl version would be cool, but i'm not *that* good with Tcl regexps.
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This is a bit too clunky to do off the command line, but:

set name hertz-0x3Cmidi.pd
puts [regsub {0x(..)} $name [format "%c" [lindex [regexp -inline 
{0x(..)} $name] 0 ]]]

I'm still learning tcl so I'm sure there is a better way to do this.

Martin