[PD] concantating

[Martin Peach]

MvH wrote:

> How would I go if I want to concantate numbers and symbols?
> 
> I want to combine text with a number.
> Like:
> 
> Number1
> Number2
> 
> I want to increase/decrease the number behind the symbol - I'm going to 
> use it for a label that I want to be set
> and labels don't like spaces in their name.

I do it (concatenation) like this but there are probably other ways:

[ 123 \
  |
[ sprintf Number%d ]
  |
[symbol $1]
  |
[$1(
  |

Here sprintf works the same as the c function sprintf, with %d being 
replaced by a decimal number, %f by a float, %s by a string, for instance.
Martin