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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:33 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:19:46PM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
>>> I am in favour of having that functionality as part of [list] and  
>>> those names look good to me. For the functionality you describe  
>>> maybe something like [list ascii2symbol] and [list symbol2ascii]?  
>>> Those would also be pretty useful!
>>>
>>> I am currently making a [split] abstraction based on Jamie's work.  
>>> I will send it through when I am done - or you can just look at  
>>> symbol2list's source which IOhannes has re-licensed in a message  
>>> to this list for use in Pd:
>>>
>>
>> hmm... another possibility, as in lisp: "list explode" and "list  
>> implode" ?
>
> Also good!
>
>> My idea is that, once this is in Pd vanilla, the  "2/3" -> "2" "3"  
>> type
>> of split is easy enough to program in an abstraction, but it's  
>> presently
>> not possible at all; meanwhile, the funtionality I'm describing is  
>> pretty
>> canonical and hard to split up into finer components in any way I  
>> can see.
>
> Ah, ok, so you could do:
>
> bat/cat/rat -> 98 97 116 47 99 97 116 47 114 97 116
>
> and then you would run through the number list finding 47 ("/") and  
> re-building the separate symbols using the reverse operation.
>
> I guess this would be cool because it would also allow you to store  
> proper strings with all kinds of characters in regular Pd arrays,  
> which might be fun. Hmmm, also many other things!
>
>> easy enough to program in an abstraction, but it's presently
>> not possible at all;
>
> After looking at Jonathan's ratio splitting abstraction I think this  
> might actually be possible with [makefilename] madness, but it's  
> much uglier than what you propose:
> <http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2011-08/090196.html>


Definitely check out Bryan Jurish's moocow with its bytes2any and  
any2bytes.  They work quite nicely for converting between messages and  
lists of byte floats and are easy to use.

.hc


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