[PD] bytes to string

[Charles Goyard]

Hi,

Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 16:36 +0200, Charles Goyard wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > apologizes, this looks like a FAQ, but I can't find anything in the
> > archives (wrong keywords ?) for this.
> > 
> > I just want to turn the bytes from comport output into a list.
> > 
> > From a serial monitor, my program outputs:
> > "1.23 456 789\n"
> > 
> > I get it correctly into pd and it seems to work. But it looks ugly and
> > I feel it could be better done.
> 
> I don't see how it could be improved much. Why is it ugly?
> 
> The only smallish improvement I see is the way you convert a stream into
> lists. The recursive [list prepend] approach gets more and more
> inefficient the longer the list gets. You could use a message box
> instead and add your bytes with [add2 $1(. And on termination  (sel 10)
> send a 'bang, set' to output the finished list and empty the message
> box.

It works better with your solution (the terminator is never in the wrong
place) and is easier to read.

Attached.

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Charles
-------------- next part --------------
#N canvas 2 47 837 751 10;
#X obj 358 369 outlet;
#X obj 358 160 inlet;
#X obj 358 206 select 10;
#X obj 358 331 moocow/bytes2any 128 10;
#X msg 409 269 add2 \$1;
#X msg 358 298;
#X msg 358 239 bang \, set;
#X connect 1 0 2 0;
#X connect 2 0 6 0;
#X connect 2 1 4 0;
#X connect 3 0 0 0;
#X connect 4 0 5 0;
#X connect 5 0 3 0;
#X connect 6 0 5 0;