[PD] string manipulation

[ix at replic.net]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:20:55AM -0500, david golightly wrote:
> hey all -
> 
> does anyone know of any basic string manipulation tools for PD, enabling 
> contruction of symbols from character-atoms?  if not, i might be interested 
> in writing a set of externals, but i don't want to duplicate anyone's work.

you can't do strings in pd. however, you can do symbols - you can probbaly do what you want with l2s/s2l from zexy and sprintf from cyclone unless your needs are insane - then you can try 'echo $1 | sed -e blahblah' with [shell], or pyext or tot (Tcl)...

a 'sed' external would be cool..