[PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Yes.

But why do you want to parse pd files with pd?  The only prototype I 
saw in the PDDP docs that use this META data was written in c (or maybe 
it was python, I can't remember).

-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, 9:20 PM
> 
> 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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