[PD] $ vars again

[eli+ at gs211.sp.cs.cmu.edu]

This time I've got a symbol, say "foo", and some numbers, say 3, and
I'm trying to construct "read foo-3.wav".  

Tried "makefilename $1-%d.wav", aiming to plug in the 3 and get
"$1-3.wav", run that through a "set $1" to a message box -- but
makefilename sends "\$1-3.wav", and I haven't figured out how to strip
the backslash off.  If makefilename took "set", or handled lists, or
didn't add the backslash; or if there were an "add3" that didn't
inject spaces... but how do people prefer to do this kind of thing?

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