[PD-dev] Converting arbitrary strings to symbol in an external

[Chuckk Hubbard]

Thank you.
I have read it.
I understood that the "const" part of "const char *s) means it can only
take an actual hardcoded string. Can this convert floats to symbols?

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 4:19 PM Claude Heiland-Allen <claude at mathr.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Chuckk,
>
> On 22/03/2019 13:59, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> > Can I convert char[] to symbol?
> t_symbol *gensym(const char *s);
>
> recommended reading:
> https://github.com/pure-data/externals-howto
>
>
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