[PD] Concatenating two atoms into one?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

On 2020-10-01 08:44, jayrope wrote:
> Thank you Hans and Matt,
> 
> Hans, nice workaround, I'll surely stick to this. Thank you.

i don't think this is a workaround.
it's rather the ideal solution, as it stays within the domain of
numbers, and doesn't require re-parsing the string (which is a costly
operation).

> 
> Matt, regarding banging the message: this unfortunately leads to the
> following object, for instance a float, reporting
> float: no method for '12' (i. e. no method for '<value>').

use a symbol, not a selector (and make sure you are using Pd>=0.48)

matt's  `[set $1$2, bang(` construct is really only useful if you want
to send the data to a messagebox (but why would you want to do that?)

this should just work™:

[3.1 415(
|
[pack 0 0]
|
[symbol $1$2(
|
[float]
|
|3.1415\

but again, this is much more expensive than the solution proposed by hans.

gfmadrs
IOhannes