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

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

Cool! Many thanks!

BTW, where is this documented?

P.S. Yes, this does also work with spaces (at least it does on 0.42.5
extended).

Best wishes,

Ico

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roman Haefeli [mailto:reduzierer at yahoo.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:48 PM
> To: Ivica Ico Bukvic
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Subject: Re: [PD] is there a way to get symbol length?
> 
> 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(
> |
> |          [loadbang]
> |          |
> |          [symbol( <- empty symbol
> |          |
> [symbol2list] <- from  zexy
> |
> [list length]
> 
> though, i haven't checked, if this approach still works, when the
> incoming symbol contains spaces (or other 'special' characters).
> 
> roman