[PD] sending a text file through netsend

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
poil at apfrod.com hat gesagt: // poil at apfrod.com wrote:

> I'd like to send an entire external text file (xml) over tcp on a bang.
> I'm currently struggling with the textfile object and netsend. Are there
> better ways?
> 
> Textfile assumes I want to send a line at a time, while netsend wants a
> message with "send" at the start and then the entire string I want to
> send. A  message with "send $1" only sends the second word of any line.

To dynamically prepend a "send" in front of a list of unknown length
you can use [list prepend send]. This will generate a message: "list
send a b c d ..." 

However [netsend] wants to get a message not starting with "list send"
but only with "send ..." so you need to use an additional [list trim]
to remove the "list"-part. All together this will be like this:

 [textfile]
 |
 [list prepend send]
 |
 [list trim]
 |
 [netsend]

Ciao
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