[PD] Problems with oscformat (and oscparse?) and slashes

[Miller Puckette]

Hi Joao -

I might be misunderstanding the problem, but to specify an address like
"/parameter/bla" you can sen oscformat a list, "parameter bla" (the slashes
are delimiters between the elements of the address, each of which is a
symbol without any slashes in it.)  So you can simply send the message "1"
to the object "oscformat parameter bla".

cheers
Miller

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 05:48:19PM +0200, Jo??o Pais wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having some issues with oscformat and slashes ( / ). Many programs out
> there use formats such as "/parameter/bla 1", but both oscformat and
> oscparse don't really cope that well with them.
> 
> For oscformat:
> - it's not possible to send a string starting with a slash, the message
> "oscformat: no method for '/aa' " appears.
> - A hack can be done by sending a message [set /aa, bang( ...
> - ... but this doesn't work if the message to send is /aa 1, as oscparse
> will convert it to /aa/1
> - defining an object as [oscformat /aa] seems to work, but it will mean
> that another oscformat object has to be defined for each single string
> being sent: /aa, /aa/a, /aa/b, ...
> 
> For oscparse:
> - when it receives a message with slashes in it, it removes the slashes
> automatically. Which is kind of acceptable, if it's going to be connected
> with a normal route. But not that much if the message is going to be worked
> on, and resent.
> 
> Or is there any other way of doing this? The documentation doesn't present
> anything else. It took some time of screaming at the computer until I
> compared the results with mrpeach's objects.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Joao

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