[PD] symbols with zero paddings and spaces

[Christof Ressi]

Oh, you're right! I just realized that he was using cmd.exe, while I was 
using a Msys2 shell. That explains the difference: cmd.exe keeps the 
quotations for echo, but the Msys2 shell strips it away.

Christof

On 17.03.2021 22:10, José de Abreu wrote:
> he gets 01 because the full symbol is "01
>
> and the last symbol is actually 05.txt"
>
> strange, why echo is sending " ... (!?)
>
> Em Qua, 17 de mar de 2021 12:33, oliver <oliver at klingt.org 
> <mailto:oliver at klingt.org>> escreveu:
>
>     On 2021-03-17 14:25, Christof Ressi wrote:
>     > pdsend/pdreceive uses the FUDI protocol (= Pd messages), where
>     strings
>     > that look like floats are converted to a float atom. When
>     serializing
>     > between FUDI strings and Pd atoms, the textual result is not
>     > guaranteed to be the same for number atoms.
>
>     i see
>
>     >
>     >> the resulting output from [netreceive -u 3001] will be:
>     >>
>     >> udp: "01 2 3 4 05.txt"
>     >  Are you sure? Because I get
>     >
>     > 1 2 3 4 05.txt
>
>     yes, i am sure, at least for my system (Win7 / PD 0.51.4).
>     see attached .jpg.
>     (i'm getting the same truncations without the quotes btw.)
>
>     >
>     > which is what I would expect. The float atoms are properly
>     serialized
>     > to their string representation (Pd doesn't remember the original
>     > text!) and "05.txt" is actually a symbol.
>     >
>     >> is there any way to sent such a symbol untruncated using the
>     methods
>     >> above,
>     >  If you want to send it as a single symbol, that's possible, you
>     just
>     > have to escape the whitespace:
>     >
>     > "01\ 02\ 0003\ 004\ 05.txt"
>
>     thank you very much, that was a pointer in the right direction !
>     i figured, since the white spaces by themselves where transmitted
>     correctly, i wouldn't have to worry about them, but literally
>     escaping
>     white spaces within my .tcl script (by forcing a backslash before
>     every
>     white space) seems to do the trick !
>
>     best
>
>     oliver
>
>
>
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