[Pd] Infernal symbols

[Chuckk Hubbard]

I usually find ways to just avoid understanding message selectors in
Pd, but I can't find a way around this.

[hottentot(
|
[add $1(

says "argument number out of range".  How on earth can I add an
arbitrary symbol to a line in a [textfile]?

-Chuckk

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