[PD] Size of a table

[Hans Roels]

Apart from [soundfiler] I use this trick to get the size of any array 
(audio or data) in pd vanilla:
(array1 = the name of an example array)

bang
|
[expr size("array1")]
|
print

or replace the expr with [expr size("$s2")] and connect a message 
[symbol array1( to the second inlet of this expr object

hans r

At 09:38 11/06/2008, you wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:03:28AM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> > raul diaz wrote:
> > >I have a dumb question. What's the best way to get the size of a table?
> > >Sometimes I load a lot of samples on tables with soundfiler and I would
> > >like to take the size of each sample as a variable in order to use it
> > >with phasor + tabread4~.
> > >Is there any object which gets the size of a table?
> >
> > well i have a dumb answer: why not use the "length" output of [soundfiler]?
> >
> > i think that in this case the philosophy of Pd his, that there are 2
> > ways to change the length of a table: do it interactively (e.g. create a
> > [table bla 1024] or do it programmatically (e.g. via [; bla resize 216()
> > in the first case the author of the software is responsible for using
> > (e.g. "hardcoding") the right table-size throughout there patch, in the
> > latter case you could just listen to these programmatical changes).
> > tables suddenly changing there size are beyond Pd :-)
>
>There is one situation I have encountered where it would be useful to
>have a built in [arraysize]. In some of the s-abstractions such as
>[s-samplepiece~] you have to pass in the table name that you'd like the
>abstraction to use. This means that at some point the user loads some
>audio data into the named table (for example using [s-loader~]) and they
>then know the sample table size. When they create the [s-samplepiece~]
>playback abstraction they must manually enter the array size as one of
>the arguments to the abstraction, along with the table name.
>Inefficient.
>
>Best,
>
>Chris.
>
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