[PD] is there a way to get symbol length?

[Roman Haefeli]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 15:26 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> title says it all. Any external capable of doing this (other than
> resorting to something like a pyext)?
> 
> Ico

[symbol yoursymbol(
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|          [loadbang]
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|          [symbol( <- empty symbol
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[symbol2list] <- from  zexy
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[list length]

though, i haven't checked, if this approach still works, when the
incoming symbol contains spaces (or other 'special' characters).

roman