[PD] Pd META: Author/Help Patch Authors

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It is Pd, so I think we should at least make an effort to make things  
easy to parse in Pd.  I tried your parser using data that is probably  
closer to what we might use, and it didn't work at all.   If someone  
can get a Pd parser working that can handle the commas well, then I  
would be OK using commas in the meta data format.

Here's my data:
tags - pure data, frequency modulation, synthesis

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.hc

On Aug 31, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> 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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>
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> <file.pd><parser.pd>



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