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

[Urs Liska]

Hello Marc,

Marc Lavallée schrieb:
> Urs Liska a écrit :
>> 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).
> 
> Do you want to transform symbols into sequences and lists?
not necessarily. I want to read in characters from the keyboard or from 
text files and then display them in GEM. Everything works fine except 
for the characters that seem inevitably to be escaped in Pd...

> 
>> Or I have to create independent symbols ',' or ' ', but [symbol ,] or 
>> [symbol ,( don't work (same with space).
>>
>> Would be glad about any hints.
> 
> You could use my ascii externals.
> I hope you work in linux 
Sorry, no, I'm still on Windows
because there's only one old binary:
> http://puredata.info/Members/odradek/ascii-0.1.1.tar.bz2/file_view
> (the source code is provided but it not adapted to the new flext)
And unfortunately I'm not ready (yet) to deal with C++ source files (or 
any source files to be used to create externals) :-(


Thanks for the tip anyway
Urs
> -- 
> Marc
> 

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