[PD] manipulation of symbols?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

On 2010-11-01 20:01, João Pais wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there any object that allows a more extended manipulation of symbols?
> For example, I have symbols with the format 1234-56-78_12-23.aaa, and I
> wanted to get only the floats inside, and use them on mathematics. For
> now, the only way I see to do that is to use several [splitfilename -],
> until all the individual elements are separated. Or is it possible to do
> that with sprintf?
> 

hmm, sprintf is usually for the other way round. you would need scanf...

anyhow, [symbol2list -] will split your symbol into "
1234, 56, 78_12-23.aaa" so it's a bit more comfortable than [splitfilename].

mfgasdr
IOhannes

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