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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 10, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> 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


That would make a nice object, like [symbollength].

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