[PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think that in practice, the commas will cause problems, since Pd  
interprets a comma as a message separator.  In my experience, at least.

Do you have a working example of reading from textfile and doing  
something with the text with commas in it?

.hc

On Aug 31, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> [bang(
> |
> [list append foo, bar]
> |
> [$2(
> |
> [print]
>
> To parse, just use [sel,]
> Same for semicolon.
> Also works when reading from [textfile]
>
> -Jonathan
>
> --- On Mon, 8/31/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors
>> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
>> Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 4:16 PM
>>
>> Cool, could you post an example of parsing commas in Pd? If
>> its easy to parse the commas from a 'text' object, then that
>> would solve the tags debate.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>
>>> I'm getting close to finishing making all the help
>> patches in the reference
>>> folder conform to the PDDP template.
>>>
>>> I need to add a keyword to pd META for the object
>> author and the help patch
>>> authors, something like:
>>>
>>> AUTHOR Miller Puckette
>>>
>>> HELP_PATCH_AUTHOR(S) Dave Sabine, Krzysztof Czaja,
>> Jonathan Wilkes
>>>
>>> (BTW, it's quite easy to parse commas in Pd.)
>>>
>>> -Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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