[PD] trim symbols?

[Hrvoje Radnic]

Wow, thanks everybody for great solutions! 

Ingo's answer is the most satisfying for me because it stays in vanilla. For now, I will just subpatch it in my project and use it as a reference, but I must admit it will take some time before I really understand every part of that patch.
All the best!
 Hrvoje Radnic
http://soundcloud.com/sumovi-protiv-valova 
00385(0)915225162

      From: Ingo Stock <mail at ingostock.de>
 To: pd-list at lists.iem.at 
 Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2017 3:32 PM
 Subject: Re: [PD] trim symbols?
   
You can use [list fromsymbol] to convert the symbol to a list of ASCII
values and than work on that. See attached patch, it should do what you
want.

Note that the patch assumes that the ending (like .wav) is always 4
characters. Also it uses a simple list-drip mechanism that should be
efficient for small lists, in doubt use list-drip of list-abs instead.

best wishes, ingo


On 23/09/17 14:33, Hrvoje Radnic via Pd-list wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to display the name of the .wav file loaded from the HDD
> (using [openpanel]), but, without a full path and without the file
> extension. For example, [openpanel] outputs "symbol
> C:/Users/Hrvoje/Desktop/my_patches/SAMP_SEQ/samples/BD.wav" and I just
> want "BD" to be displayed. Is it possible in pd vanilla? Thank you for
> the help!
> Cheers!
>  
> Hrvoje Radnic
> http://soundcloud.com/sumovi-protiv-valova
> 00385(0)915225162
> 
> 
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