[PD] split off first path component of osc messages

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Lorenz Schori hat gesagt: // Lorenz Schori wrote:

> i'd like to use osc for controlling a rather big number of abstracts.  
> because the "voice numbers" are contained in the path part of the osc  
> messages i currently have to do something like
> 
> [OSCroute /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 ...]
> 
> is there a way to split off the first path part of an osc message? e.g.
> 
> [OSCfirstpathcomponent]
> |                     |
> <number or symbol>    <rest of osc message>
> 

You can get the <rest of osc message> part using [OSCroute /*], and to
get the first element, you could use [s2l /]---[$1( from zexy and
maybe prepending [symbol $1( to the incoming OSC message. However all
trailing arguments to the OSC message will be lost in the list, that
s2l procudes.

Ciao
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