[PD] dollarsigns with quotes

[carmen]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:12:42PM +0000, seth at street-vision.com wrote:
> 
> Trying to get pd to interpret dollarsigns in message boxes when they are surrounded by quotations. for example the following patch will just print:
> print: tag is "$1" and id is 5
> 
> 
> 
> [sometext<   [ 5 \
>  |          /
>  |         /
> [packs s f ]
>  |
>  |
> [tag "$1" and id is $2  <
>  |
>  |
> [print]
> 
> 
> I need the value in quotes because i'm trying to dynamically construct SQL queries. I know that if i put quotes in the initial 'sometext' message box and around the $1, it works.this doesn't help much because i still have to get quotations around a dynamic value at some point... 
> 
> any suggestions?

although you can makefilename "%s" then use that as a $1: sprintf. think its in cyclone... you can create the entire query in one object including any spaces, quotes, etc....

> 
> -Seth 
> 
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