[PD] replace character with or create a symbol ',' or ' '

[Urs Liska]

Hi list,

I'm stuck with a 'string' problem which might be easy but I don't see 
how to solve it...

I have to replace certain characters in a symbol with ',' (comma) or ' ' 
(space).
Or I have to create independent symbols ',' or ' ', but [symbol ,] or 
[symbol ,( don't work (same with space).

Would be glad about any hints.

OTOH, maybe I could prevent getting into this problem at all (but don't 
know how): I'm reading lists into a [textfile]. These lists consist of 
pairs of characters and corresponding ASCII values, like:
a 65 c 67 e 69
First I replaced spaces with '_' because I can't write
a 65   32 e 69 (I think Pd would just ignore the extra spaces)
Then I replaced ',' with another character because Pd obviously 
interpreted the comma as a line ending character (although I [read ... cr( )
So I have to reconvert these characters within Pd.

If I had a possibility to have the original characters directly my life 
would be much easier...

Thanks for any help
Urs

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Urs Liska
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[Pd 0.39.0, WinXP]