no (as clumsy as it is, but) you just have to put an expected maximum number of necessary %c-patterns, then drive it with an [Append 0] the sequence-to-list converter is [thresh] k Marc Lavallée wrote: ... >>which is what [sprintf %c%c...] does >>(bit clumsy, for sure) ... > It works only for sequences with a fixed length, in a list format.