[PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file

Miller Puckette msp at ucsd.edu
Wed Aug 3 06:35:14 CEST 2011


Nope... there needs to be a string-to-binary-list-and-back function somewhere
but I can't figure out what to name it :)

M

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:26:21AM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> now, some files come in ratios as one symbol like this
> 
> 5/4
> 3/2
> 7/4
> 
> I'd need to break them into different characters, then treat as numbers to
> get interval in cents. How do I do that? I believe I can't do it in any way
> with vanilla objects, right?
> 
> thanks
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
> 2011/8/3 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
> 
> > yeah, it works :)
> >
> > I knew there had to be an easier way other than the mess I did.
> >
> > Perfect, Thanks
> >
> > This is a very cool addon feature to my stuff I'm showing at PdCon, see you
> > all there.
> >
> > See you all there soon!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 2011/8/3 Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>
> >
> >> HI Alex --
> >>
> >> Have you tried sending textfile an "open [my-filename] cr" message?  The
> >> "cr" flag asks to interpret newlines as end-of-list.
> >>
> >> cheers
> >> Miller
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:51:17PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> >> > Hi folks
> >> >
> >> > Back in the end of my masters, I did make something that allows you to
> >> load
> >> > scales from the Scala software into Pd, which has a database of over
> >> 4000
> >> > scales.
> >> >
> >> > Check the software and data bank here
> >> http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
> >> >
> >> > It's an extremely powerful tool for microtonality, but you may not care
> >> for
> >> > that and just want to use the scale data bank in Pd.
> >> >
> >> > Anyway, I have a way that exports the  from the Scala software into a
> >> text
> >> > file that opens in this specific subpatch of mine.
> >> >
> >> > But I was trying to do something easier, and that is just load these
> >> *.scl
> >> > files into [textfile] or [msgfile] for example, and extracting the list
> >> of
> >> > these scale intervals in cents.
> >> >
> >> > Here's what one of these files look like
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ==============
> >> >
> >> > ! 08-11.scl
> >> > !
> >> > 8 out of 11-tET
> >> >  8
> >> > !
> >> >  218.18182
> >> >  327.27273
> >> >  436.36364
> >> >  654.54545
> >> >  763.63636
> >> >  872.72727
> >> >  1090.90909
> >> >  2/1
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ===============
> >> >
> >> > So I assumed it'd be easy to extract each cents value and make a list
> >> out of
> >> > it, but I was wrong. Don't know why but it doesn't load this in separate
> >> > lines, maybe because it is not a *.txt file at all.
> >> >
> >> > And anyway, I'm getting in Pd just a list, so the above file, for
> >> example,
> >> > file becomes
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > list ! 08-11.scl ! 8 out of 11-tET 8 ! 218.182 327.273 436.364 654.545
> >> > 763.636 872.727 1090.91 2/1
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I seem to have found a messy way to get the list out of it, but maybe
> >> you
> >> > people know of something really simple and elegant with some extended
> >> > objects.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Alex
> >>
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