hello luke$ i don't have a real solution at hand right now, but you could send the numbers over a socket using a [netsend]/[netreceive]-pair. if you strip the symbol selector before sending, the [netreceive] interprets numeric values as floats.
roman On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 03:40 -0700, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote: > I know this probably falls into the category of string discussion, but > I'm interested if there are any solutions to this currently > employable: > > I have a symbol that I'm splitting up in order to extract numerical > content from the text. I'm using zexy's s2l for this, then routing > the float data back into l2s to assemble a value. But l2s only spits > out a symbol, and I can't seem to find any object to reinterpret the > symbol as a float. > > Even using list trim to remove the symbol selector leaves me with a > numeric message that pd still refuses to interpret as such. [float] > won't take it, nor will [t f], and [list] just turns it back into a > symbol. I've attached a patch demonstating this issue. > > The only solution I can think of is to make a decimal interpreter to > assemble my number rather than l2s (since s2l spits out the list as > floats just fine), but that seems a bit silly. > > I look forward to the discussion : ). > > Luke > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
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