[PD] OSC packet-parsing?

[David Merrill]

Hi everyone -
What's the recommended way to parse OSC packets in pd? I have chunks of 
18 bytes that I want to send from another computer into PD, and OSC 
seems like a natural way to do it. But I'm coming up against 2 problems:

 - have to back them into integers, since OSC doesn't seem to have byte 
as a datatype
 - how to parse a block of 18 integers once I have it in PD?

(I'm using the "dumpOSC" object to receive the data)
thanks,
David Merrill