[PD] $ vars again

[Miller Puckette]

HI Eli,

I have to think about this.  I don't know who's treating you to that
backslash for one thing.  Anyway, makefilename should indeed take a "set"
message, and anyway, I forgot why I didn't think it was possible to feed
it more than one variable...

cheers
Miller

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:53:26PM -0400, eli+ at gs211.sp.cs.cmu.edu wrote:
> 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?
> 
> -- 
>      Eli Brandt  |  eli+ at cs.cmu.edu  |  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/