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

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

>> unfortunately not.
>> in order to make [makefilename] not crash on almost everything you feed
>> it, the format-string has to be parsed.
>> this is done in a rather incomplete way. (most if not all format
>> modifiers won't work)
> actually, it probabably does work most of the time.
> i stand corrected.

It works all of the time that you avoid the things that don't work, and it 
works none of the time that you try to use the things that don't work. 
(What do you mean by «most of the time» ?)

For example, [makefilename %*d] crashes pd.

But then, even [makefilename %f_%s] crashes pd.

And then, [makefilename %ld] fails in 64-bit mode, in the same way that 
[makefilename %lld] fails all of the time.

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